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INIVERSITY GE ULLINC 


City of Waukegan, Lake Caney: HE. -e-2 /. 


Building Code 


PASSED AUGUST 14, 1924 


ZONING ORDINANCE 
PLUMBING ORDINANCE 


MAYOR—THEO. H. DURST—Department of Public Affairs 
ALBERT L. HALL—Corporation Counsel 


CSN cg 8S UREN AS pl A ce Department of Accounts and Finances 
AN BRN COS 50 6 OY Jl MR ep ee feecn ine NG Vale) Department of Health and Safety 
NICHOLLAS KELLER_____-__- Department of Streets and Improvements 
ROBERT PEARSALL_________Department of Public Property and Parks 
PAT 8 GES fA Td et MUON pei it a Pt ne ea lg a ce City Engineer 


L. PATZ, Prop. TEL. 4147 


BUILD-RITE CONSTRUCTION CO. 


Everything in Concrete 
and Tarvia Roads 


NO JOB TOO LARGE 
NO JOB TOO SMALL 


634 Ridgeland Ave. Waukegan, HL 


ASBESTOS— 
ASPHALT— 
TARand GRAVEL 


Built-up Roofings for 
Flat Roof Decks 


Any Size-| | 
vm) Roof | 


Asbestos — Tile — and 
Asphaltum — Roofing for 
Steep Roof Decks 


on 
9 Saas 


Guaranteed Roofings Applied ES pes 
Over Old Wood Shingles Se 23 0 


THE HUBERT CO. _ 


(Inc.) 
24 N. Genesee St. Phone 667 Waukegan, Ill. 
Insulation | — 
for hs 
Boilers— 


: Steam Piping— | | 
ane renrcaa sumna | Hot Water Piping— | 
PERT, i Cold Water Piping- 


aie 
14540 Wh 
NYS EW ECOT sts 


Furnished and 
Applied 


Estimates given upon 
request without 
charge 


(X) Cross marks the spot where the Phone us at 667 
heat escaped. 


— Sy *. 


THE UeRan 
m 


VER Siiy OF | : 


Your Building Loan 


We can give you prompt 
service and have your 
money ready when it is 
needed. 


Metropolitan long-term 
easy payment loans from 
3 to 15 years. No long 
delays. 


E. Schwartz & Co. 


Lake County’s Leading Real Estate 
and Insurance Agency 


We Are Growing Because We Are Serving 


28 N. Genesee St. Phone 614 


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Index to Building Code 


PART I. 


Topie Scope of Building See. No. 


Alterations .. eee eate en ei ten pena HOD Race ane sis, 
Buildings Not, Included. a ee 
Change cof User ee a a ee ee esi eee nek ees 
WXIStin S SBuildIn eS Se ee a ee eee a Re eee 
Fees for Permit -...00000...... 

LS ocean Bek vip e iene een einer me Oa e emg Cn MERCI Li 
New Buildings and Additions Nine UnG Me Ln ad eer ae cn tn 
Ordinance ‘Known )as: Building: Code 2... 
Permit Required se te 


Dewrmosaw1ne 


PART II 
DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS 


Basement ....... PG enti mein) ae cee oe oh MI. io rlen ne, | | 
(First Floor) | eee 
(Number of Stories) _ : plat Ae. ee cease ne aetna 
Combustible Partitions or Ceilings — eae A as ne co eee 
Exterior Diclosed “Stmieway: no ee ee ee 
Wire “HSA pegs eye ee a SiGe aera ec ea 22 
(Loeation)........ 
(Exits to Fire Escapes) . 
(Material and Se 
(Platforms) a Rees ale gore ou tn ge Geo ls Cee 
CBPaACISeCS iS NN ON aI One eae eae Nay 
(Balanced peeiwan) Cah Wl epee Dente eee TL aaa dade eo 
(Root. Ladder) PN ere BN oie ce kN eT a ee Ae ce CIE TO SE AS ees 
(Standpipe) Rone eta Ch OPES SS eis en rk AU hae Sh eral i 
Fireproof Construction 2. i ee 
Frame: aBuildines eee ea eee Bah ete or So SIe aie etna yeoman aie eee cL 
Height of a Building» Se oe arene ell ae een eri MAE ea venaee Soe heats ID 
Horizontal Exits ....... rc eRe naar ch ene mane he | 
Incombustible Roof Covering ee Sa Na ciak enn kuna ee roe Re es Ome en eel IG, 
Interior. Wnclosed “Stairway ies. 2 ee ee ee ee ee 
(Stair Exits) 
—Width a 
2—Handrails ? ie ae he AiG et SOC eer Neat a 
Loeation and Maintenance “of. ‘Exits BN a se Tt eee et on at RS OER esa 
MELE SC OTSU UCC OM ce I ca cree ce 
Ordinary. ‘Construction 202 Weer ee ye ee oe eee re see eel 
Protected Construction) <2). sete A ee ee eee ee et 
semi-Fireproof- Ceiling >. sso a een ee 
Semi-Bireproof: Partitions: “Cee 2 ee anes eee LO 
SEQ WaAY.S = AI ee a ie aa eo eg ce ena eee 
standard” DXit 2DOOLS iis Be ee eee ee Zo 
Standpipes, Fire Extinguishers, Sprinklers’ ...0.0..0c.00c...0. 25 
(Automatic Sprinklers) RTE pe Tee oe eee ee GR ea SE 
(Mire shox fing shiers)) ee eels oo eae re ce eee 
(Interior Standpipes) 
Standard Fire Door e Say eno Sees a 
Standard Fireproof Enclosure | or. “Partition... 
Standard Wire Stops 2c ee eee 
Standard Fire Window 


Street, Alley; Court 235 hk a eee 


PART IIt 
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 


Air Pipes: and. Registers: ccc... ee 
Roses t oe SE SOIR Seale ll Nd ie ae Simin td ee all ois as gee gn eee Lee 
(Hot Air and Ventilating ey i ONSET, Ba BSC oe eons eee 

Boilers, Furnaces and Stoves ........2 opm rm erie Na ee at, 
(Fireproof: Room) =. on ee eae 
(Protection of Floor) ......... 

(Protection of Walls and Ceiling)... 

Chimneys and Stacks ........ 
(Metal Smoke Stacks) . 
(Wind Pressure) ..... saree Iles ahem Sate eet I oe Ss 

Design and Supervision of ‘Buildings ~ Pere er eee erie 2 
(Unsafe or poe Buildings)... Niicten Anette ee Es ae 

Elevator Enclosures .....0.0....2...:.-. pated Kota eon en eee BENS SS 

Hleetrica LW Or kee eT Ie ee aaa rage a eal re aCe eee) 

Floor Areas 2 

Height. and ‘Class: of Construction: :.. 0 23. ee ee 

DG ce ae eae en et ee pg 35 

Protection for Windows 

Sizes Of COUPES ES Oa year ae ee er ee ieee es OD 

Smoke. Pipes ice ees ok eae ee ae eee pee 

Steam’: Pipes cove ea et Ne tel eae en an eae) 

Special: TV Fare yee eee eh ee eI any 37 
(Laundry Drying Rooms) Be a Re stipe  eaiue ta ee Ve 
(Dry Cleaning Establishments) — Sai Sees aad ee ee 
(Public Garages) LO RU Ree Soe ray sl Ae are epee ees 

Toilet2: Rooms: classe een caes ee enact hoaiecs se Sata etotnee .- 39 
(Toilet: Rooms Required) 4.2525. = es ee eee 
(Toilet Rooms in Existing Buildings) 


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(Toilet Rooms for Two Sexes) a eases Some coe 
(SPER 28 BED FG OFT OCG 8 ieee area EF oka eo ea eee aes 
RETO Le Oo ea Ban Ss Ci) SD Pe ae mene ee 
pid a Pig eae Seas s Cae ie ad AP GP eae ot PNG te Ce eR A 
iia lIiS wean Ga Cel lin 2S) paces eter oe eee eae ae 
(Partitions Between Fixtures) a ty TS alae PL 
GRGCOM MEN GH EONS) Rte cease ee mete ieee ce ane eee soca ne ca cmacamsienee ice 
(Fixtures) = |S IR TE pi oe Se ce yee a ee la 
(Protection from Frost) — SS he EE Pee ee ge HO 
(Where no Sewer System is FAV ALLADLe) renner 
(All Toilets, Cleanliness)... oh ae RR See Ss Ra SNP ota 
(Service Closet) ..........- SE eta Tete ON et ea eat Sa eM cB EE eh 
IVS CTL LT Tae Ofek, OU Tee acca cee occa eects ae cee ee cree eae, cance enone 29 
UAT COW Ste ATLO CO ULE Ls are eee eee! oc eae ace cee nee 
WW COWS rer eee er eh re eaten ey Rate sats cape tate See, 
CC OUITIES Vain meee Dee oe teh sana et ena h sdon gaa ney 


PART IV 
STRUCTURAL DESIGN 


LEAT Sag ON COMET a Tha SES Sp 0 an Ra A 45 
GUIUEe Stresses: ands Reinforcement) 2s. ete eee 
(Reinforced ‘Concrete Columns) . ae 
(Steel and Cast Iron Columns Eneased in 1 Concrete)... 
(Protection of Reinforcing Steel) . ee Bel eerie Ta eee eee 
CRONESST OWS Hint Ed BEI BS LEN) epee ae Sa ik RA oe Le Renee oa 
CNTBT CTIA Sapa ILGer St per vision) cccctecos ee ee ee ee 
(Concrete Walls) ........... SPs peg Ss oe he ee Paani Wh Oe a eee 

Diagram Showing Structural Design .... Se rete 5 eats ak Lies * 
(Cross Sectional View of Dwelling)... 

(Foundations) Led pea iian a Sie eee AGS ater: Lan 8 ie» 
Floor and Roof Loads. .......... Se ch oti ee May 4 eens Rees Sn BE Ee 
Foundations (Size for Dwellings)... Ey Ape ett: Save MAE Sah ee bbe 2 es 5) 43 
IN BPSY TAWA “CELE AWS TG OTN, Se ed Ae ee ee aie te Sco OTN eee” 2 

(Unit OTP E TST ETC Dota 5. ei Se ee a Ce pe | 2 Rea 

(Masonry Bearing Walls) — A ee eee Se ee ee 

(GAB mew ia, cd oe eked ey 8 iee:W ISH See ee a yeaa malin ao ol een ars 

(Stone Walls) ......... ee ER et ier, ee ee ee 

(Stone or Terra Cotta. i acing)... ee een he EN ee re 

(Double Masonry Walls) Soa cea yd castes 2s eRe ee ee 

GEV OULO Wale Cola Vp Wal LG oe etek eto once aca ocsacSiabinaas tess eetatldact eresesepvu occas 

(Concrete Block and fae ees BE MO eae  oi as Oe net Fea See 

(Parapet De aes a eee. a ee ee 

CR GCESSES i cckesscceacccenen 

(Old Walls) - = eee RAR eer ean a ay Oey Oe be ee 
rept and iron. ConstrietiOn x20. .5-2-o-.--a---reecsndcions ance 46 

CUCL ATE LUT OINS he erctee tates See atch ww tee ee Nae eee 

(Furring for Walls) FOE SSE © | ea AE AS eee 

(Floor and Roof Beams) ne A oT a ee Sea 
Ue URN te Bo ORS UT To aig aces cee cents sees eter ace Arcee ete oa teases se eae nei casevcdeaswaazerslicesns 42 


PART V. 


FACTORIES, OFFICES AND MERCANTILE BUILDINGS 


Classification  ......... ene de a es A ee AR 


~ Elevator Enclosures _ apts Sol We TA) ob ee Re eel ie Sy Rina ee Pea 59 


| SRS! 0 pees sree wae cen cleat ee A Se, ie es pe Ue eas On 49 

Bale b ere Cy amie FY) CW WES CE A 111) fe a Aaa ar al SaaS 

MEI Dem Ole LXIGM) meee, Saree. ce ee ne ieee eee 8 8 

ERE Ten eds 8 L EUW ET eg flail ict aga et Bee lhe Eee Aart ane 

(Enclosure of Stairway hale sean a eats ae a Sone ee Ri Se 

CHOCO Cl OU ites nese erence ne 

(Total Width) 

(Example) _....... 

(Capacity of Building) - 

(Exit Doors) ies 

cere ae SE Re eee tis Renee Min ee Se San oe 
PSEC A Lats tegen Seer tapes een, fe ee cn eet eG 
[Se aL AE SS pdb bona el et WOE GS ie aR aN, 0s 2 oa ee we SEE os On 53 
Notice of Loads and Persons Accommodated _o0.0...0...00ceceeeeeee 57 

TOOT IO FCS pce ee eee ete es tee ee OE 

(Number of Persons) » RIS Paral Ea Mt i Re 
scuttle! 5... DARN eer ae ye ee a | 
Standpipes, ‘Fire “Extinguishers, ‘Sprinklers. Je Ge ater he OA ARR 5 15 

(Automatic Sprinklers) 2 tae ie ae ae 
Toilet Rooms, Lavatories and Dressing 1 ‘Rooms Roe Teer ee 04. 

Number of Closets and Urinals)... ‘pte RE Ae 

(Toilet Room pg le et ob op eee SETA Mey ee ae 

(Shop Lavatories) . Toe ops FOS, GOK 5 ht. Se ee aE EE 

(Drinking Water) Foy Rahs EAD Ke 8 eee fe ee een ee 

DES oe ie SUT A CTP BPS ROM aa ny IRD fol EE ons te Pe ee ae RS ee Se 
ran WOOrs. ANG Le lOOT: CO DeEDIN gS is 2 earn Solin cae Oe 

PART VI. 
THEATRES AND ASSEMBLY HALLS 


ATS LO Taplin PSUS POW VN 0 fesse ar catenetes acne nan-2ota saat emcee eed OED 
(Width of Aisles) st sey ee RE sts (aes Berle ae We 
(Passageways and Foyers) . sah sn ee Ere 
(Inclines and Aisled BEeOe) Sects s Wie ae 
(Obstruction) . ......... ie oR rete ae S aola 

Boiler and Furnace Hosme Se eiet nye eee ceed Pale eels oa LO 


699361 


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Buildings Used for Other ase a Re eras Ra SrA al 61 
Cap aGltyer eee were ee eters ME errant ay porns aa AO 
Classification Sencnt. eee eet rs Uy ik Ree eh we nee) Sh aes Dae PU ates ROSRRIRRNR Co 

(Theatres) . 

(Assembly Halls) nowt Sele. Ua ante cea Menno 
Dressing Rooms, ar Rooms, — “Bite. Lo. oh ee eee 
Elevator Enclosures. ......0.0... cebu ceibach eee net eee oO 
Exposure ands Courtsie2 ne eee 
Exits 


CTY Dek” HOXANS) Fee Raccdcmrcta aa sce areca nace erat eases a een eee 

(Eire SO SCap GS) ree een ete ete eee a a de eee ie 

CE XV6 D0 OFS ee ree rine Fe ae ti Ee ee 

(Width of ees ane eas PEW hey Saree eee oc She Af 
Hire “Protection. 2155 cae aie ee eo ease eres ay ee a, em 

(Standpipes) : 

(Fire Extinguishers) _ SP NTE ORO RUM OU Sea A BE atl a ae a oe 

(Automatic Sprinklers) 

CEUTA Tag PTI lire eae eo ce ca cee cs ee es 
Heating and Ventilating ......... icin ois beieee gene c Caan ae Sires 
Height and Class of Construction. ae Re hia eae ee Sata oe CE 

OTH GaP OS) Suess seas Oe ioe ed as eet ae Ree Bae ONE Nce teen eee 

(Balconies and Galleries) Meats 

(Assembly BEbaIIS) Hee ee eae ae eee ee need Be here mek | Santee Tse 
Mirrors——F'alse’ ‘Openini cere so ee ee eee 74 
Motion “Picture: Machine (Booths 2eaen en ee ee 

(Construction of alee 

(DOOT) Ieee aces DOS, Rec career aie ees One ak ER 

(Openings) eee haere PS ames Pe eee cetce acer ta tana Nam eae aaa ene Ra aR 

(Ventilation) YoRSU UD SN Aa We Mies tent ear 

(Hlectric Wiring) . Pie eB gt ht cceeesen: bei oem al A i a 

(MEE CHV Te) 9 ace eee oo eee eo ae 

(Bilis; - Hite): eer ey corer eee 

(Temporary Booths) . Ree tees ema nse Aires actos, eA: OC 

(Exit Lights). BERET RE pene te aiet ARNE Ob he Aas 2 

te PIVCAUTES) 2k Rok ea ee esas ee een ae 


Beaty. Sal soccer ce ae oceans ee cei to ce ee eee 


SIDES 12 2 aR er Al en are Sr er my ee Sn Ce ie RS ee met Ah 67 
(CWihen! SReEqQuired)) aie oe, cic es eas aor ae ene 
(PPOSCOm TU Wa) ye ee ee cree ee ee mera 
(Fire Proof Curtain) Eesha Sue peec ete at Bt Ca eee Ree rena 
CAUCOMATICAV CNET] at Ori) ee a ee ee 
(Stage Vestibule) a ee 
(Kootlight Trough) IETS te ee al Le ae Te 
(Fireproof Bae PR cess eg ate en oN 

Toilet Rooms . Bs eae ee 


PART VII. 
SCHOOL BUILDINGS, LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS 


Assembly Halls...............- Bai GS ONES Ceap ee fe Sk IES oe tees ak eae eee EMR eta ey 
Boiler and Furnace Rooms Sle occa St Ea en ee ame See 
Classification nseats Sect dishes de senna Re De Cae ote re aE LON ed te rte TS 


(Number, Location and | Type) 
(Total Width) ee 
(Exit Doors) 

(Passageways) | SRE ee Re eyo ee ee 
Pxposure and ‘Courts? 2.2 ee ee ee 
Fire Alarms. ........ RNa eae a Pe cep ILL ESAS sum NE Si) 
Height and Class “of. ‘Construction ~ Fa PVE PR ate M eames is pune ee Itt 

(Maximum Height) MR eo he Nene AEA IIE ES 8 BEN 

(Class of Construction) 

(First Floor Fireproof) ses 

(Subdivisions and Firestops) . pure eR ees eee 
Rooms, “windows “and ‘Lights _ ere MEy er LAS. ct la citer ona Wine NS Deeb 

(Window Sas) oe ee eee ee ER ere ee 

(Basement Rooms) Paper Pm SS any ath Is ae ie Ro Sy, 
Suit Gene Be Se Ae Ne ee A ORE ee a 80 
Standpipes and Fire ee PR act te) Resid And ane ores 
Seats, Desks and Aisles .....000000.... PU See ea Sila ee EU arse eh Be 03 
BOiet ARO OMS. aco ee Se See ee ia oa ete arene ee Rea al nt eee 
Vien tila tome oe eae ea ee eae ee i eee Pa mE Ey 


PART VIII. 
DWELLINGS, APARTMENT HOUSES AND PLACES 
OF DETENTION 


Classification .......... Seat ny ae pense eee OD 

(Hotels and. ‘Places “of. Dentention) . 

(Minimum Size for Residence) . 

(Foundation for Twellanes) a onl ok tee Se ese 
Cleanliness _.... Sheree Bhi Ge Ukr Nee Sokel Ga See em Us opera sere (PE 
Courts’ and’ Shafts’ sn.) 5 we) ok oe ig ees tee RM ee 93 
Directions for Tecayes soos eee Saat REO Tete EN REN rate aN aan ne een HE 

(Number, “Location, Type) 
(Stairways) BI CEN ee gta ot 
(Hxit Doors) 


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Topic 


; (EZ SSL BW EL V'S) a ccaecss cece Sore pean eececte eects not eee Semneeeceaceutebtorestsed 
LESH ERO” fd Eig Cy Cees eo hen ee eens ere oA ee Peta 3 P Rene LER ane 
Eelohie ang Class. Oi. CONSEEULCTICO Wiese ee enn eer encrtceteneee 


(Fireproof 'Construction) . 


Sec. No. 


(Non-Fireproof Construction) .vescccccccccccccnnecssesessesesnseinee 
(First Floor Used for Business Purposes) eit pats AER 


(Corridor and. Dividing. Partitions) t.2....528....02.5m 
Laundries, Boiler and Furnace ROO mise ee ee eee ee ee 


Rooms and. “Windows | mo 


(Size and Height of Rooms) ee games oe ae 


(Basement Rooms) . 


CWimdowe), 223 beet ce A ne aes Oe: ae 


Tasicy aye MS) meee eee 


SCETR A hee. o NG ~ ie it eA lg eGR ERATE EC 


Special Regulations for Dwelling Houses 
(Monolithie Concrete Dwellings) 


Pee Conatrnchiony: oper es, 28s) ee oe 


(Concrete Structural Dwellings) 
(Height of Hxterior Walls) 


Standpipe and Fire Extinguishers. ................. 
Toilet Rooms Lae ares 
Ve opine 


ee 
PART IX 


ENFORCEMENT, PENALTY, VALIDITY 
Conflicting Ordinances Repealed 


es NG ok Me Oe dat cts ke 


Enforcement of Ordinance 


Index to Zoning Ordinance 


Area Regulations 
1—Area Districts 


(Floors, Floor Beams and i putea en ee ee ee ee Be 


—‘A” Area Districts — ae 


(GEM) TESTU UC WTS ING SS eats ah i Sener Ie AER ae pe tat a anece 
(pb) SNumbéer sor Wamiltes Hloused. 2 .22)2.c.c-cs. cece a 


(CD) TRY Sain, AE Bet Reg an AS eR ot Ie ah oP RSs 5k OP ed 


(HOI) og- ASB IG Wes SG wg ha ee ope Bi Sem ee a, ie bb ee 


COM DTere COULESie ts te ee ee 


(ipeOUteT ESC OUTES) ee ee eke es i EES, 


(b) Number of Families Housed 


pe SPAT OAM T SETI CLS a tee tee ae ree en ates 
OR aT CER BCS ERY seg TEL POA eo ccta cau eee n= Ae ounse pieced some seerionee 


Bee ar eee a Fs ee a ok 


Cid mC Come Yo 2) TC siete ee eee cee heey Pe 20) RR cee 
(eB) SUB REENG CORT UI oR eee 2 ea RMN ARS Pee er ee 


(Ly OvUbere Courts tere eee 


Pree eT Pat T lets soe rc paca miee, 


(a) Building Area ...... 


(b) Number of Families. “Housed 5 is bad 


(ec) Rear Yards 
(d) Side Yards 
(e) Outer Courts 


Chee innerpe.G Ours. ne eee eaten ee ie 
Pye) Peer Gtieer TS TCE Games arm rarsceentate sett ee Oe Bae 
(eS Uh Cin) Oe AMO eee eames Sere hag ee ee 
(Gi) ee Cares Vel PU See weeks toe rare ee) 2S we Se 


CHIE S TG upe YAEL ING Staeeeeen te een Scere wet Lt 8 ee Pe ad 


rd WE Tae Sie CBE EEN @ So ORR eie ons We hte, car eae ate = Ae eae 


(e) Outer Courts ........ te Ren aie EMR ons Lane 
pa EGS Line Set Back 


—Area Districts Exceptions: and Regulations... 


Wagdanee Ci OUSCEL CUS ues hetero Le ee ee 
Board of Appeals ....... 

(Creation of Membership) — 

(Meetings) 


ok | 


ght Og ees ee Oar eC ee ee 


(Powers) 


Changes. and Amendments 


Completion of Building—Existing Buildings... 


Definitions 
Herehe Reculations =... 
Heiont: Districts... 


LeRat 
Bis 1 


1 
4 


Pine Neher WISLTiOk eae ek nl de 


2 ee Clon te ISUPICL ae eee eee 2.5 es 


3.— “CQ” Height District 
—“—” Height District 


D. Rosier ght District Exe reptions s Pov. sydeiee eee oo 


Interpretation TIurposes 
Oecupancy Permits 


PVA GB oh tn an hea tsar ee eas 


Regulations 
(Use Districts) 
(“A” Residence Districts) 
(‘B” Residence Districts) 


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Topi Sec. No. Page 
(on Residence Districts) scan nacrcpeetenncae one ame 98 
(Local Business) Districts) c053. oss, sss tse ee 98 
(General: Business Districts) 2.2450 ei ee 99 
(First Industrial District) 
(Second Industrial District) 
(Non-Conforming: Uses) "ii 3k.. 32 ee 

Validity of Ordinance ......... HE en Oe nee en ay Aur 

Violation, Penalty, Enforcement - Ba Ney eae NN eed ae pA ns Be Ys Se 

When JHffective Pept ag dy ee EC 


Index to Plumbing Ordinance 


Bends, ‘Hubs, Increasers, Offsets, @tesicat es 123 
Board of Examiners Greated...2iGt ae ae ee 115 
Branches How. Mate ticacke aan oe eee le ee 129 
Branches—Anegle of. ....... okay o4 Siete ee nerf wre RE ao.” 126 
Branch Vent ' Pipes—How ‘Connected . RE TS ace ier td RMN 
Brass Caps for Cleanouts—Weight aids Size... Coke sere 49 124 
Brass Ferrules—Quality, Weight and Size uc. 47 . 124 
Cast Iron. Pipes and Fittings Coated Ss a Aes dE ae Pe Nee oes 1) 123 
Catch Basin in Building Prohibited . SES ed ee Man Pl see Pe esc 9 9 95 131 
Certificate Necessary—Listing SHiMexs chee ee See 4 117 
CABEOTIS Ee ce i Oe ee oe ae Gta rN etn cae ee §3 129 
Cleanout Connections ........ be dee EO = (Oa Oona 
Connecting Pipes to Steam. ‘Boilers “with Water posed aor ignor tae ee he. 131 
Connections for; Water losets is. dene es See ee ee 
(a) Other Fixtures. ....... Be as SS EL ee ONS ooh st aes 
Change in Work—Permit Corrected _ Ste wat lnipe a sie Serer einer 2 eee 
Defective Work to be Made Good 2.00... 
Discharge from Fixture. ....... oo Sahil aR eS Rea: SHON 
Doing Work Without a Permit _ eS pias tN A OEE TRS Ne MAS 
Drinking Tanks cares b SES eR taica ce shoo eae ete ee 
Ravthowwear Traps” chs Dee aceon ge aA Since Beat ANG Ne a ns 
HX Cavation Of Str ets os eee a ee i oss ee ee ee 
Hxtension Above Roof . 
Ferrules ........ Sica s pecartainne Suse wun aks cae ra meee aa an 
Fittings to Correspond + ‘with. | Pipe See ee hee OREO: CRE ir kt 
Flat Valves ee se Reto Be oy fe eae aa BN ay en eee 
Galvanized “Pipe: oc bien sy ae ee es Oh ee ee eee 
House Drain Pipes ...... : 5 spain ee aaa 
(a) Sink and Laundry Waste ‘Pipes | ie thetnard Galalint Le 
Cb)" Connection with iS ewer goss ses ee ee 
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Building Code 
of the City of Waukegan 
Lake County, Illinois 


Be It Ordained by the Mayor and City Commission of 
the City of Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, as Follows: 


PART I 


Scope of Building Code 


Section 1. This Ordinance to be Known and Cited as the 
Building Code 


The following provisions shall constitute and be known as 
the Building Code, and may be cited as such, and provides for 
certain matters concerning the construction, equipment, altera- 
tion, repair, moving or removal of buildings or any structure 
whatsoever erected or to be erected in the City of Waukegan. 


Section 2. Fire Limits 
The following shall be and are hereby declared to be the fire 
limits: All the areas designated in the Zoning Ordinance of 
Waukegan and amendments thereto hereafter enacted as Local 
Business Districts and General Business Districts. 


Section 3. New Buildings and Additions 

This code shall apply to all new buildings and additions except 

those exempted in Section 7. 
Section 4. Alterations 

This code shall apply to all alterations which affect the struc- 
tural strength, fire hazard, exits, lighting or sanitary condition 
of any building except those exempted in Section 7. This does 
not include ordinary repairs necessary for the maintenance of 
any building. 

Section 5. Change of Use 

This code shall apply to all buildings which are to be devoted 
to a new use for which the requirements of this code are in any 
way more stringent than the requirements covering the previous 
use of the building. 


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Section 6. Existing Buildings 

Every new installation, and every repair exceeding 50 per 
cent, of any 

Toilet Room, 

Boiler, furnace, or stove, 

Chimney or smoke pipe, : 

Motion picture machine or booth, shall comply with the cor- 
responding requirements of this code. Every new installation 
and every repair exceeding 25 percent of any roof covering shall 
comply with the corresponding requirements of this code. (See 
also section 4 and 5). 


Section 7. Buildings Not Included 
This code does not apply to the following buildings: 
(a) Temporary one-story buildings for use of builders. 
(b) Wooden fences not over 8 feet high. 
(c) Bay windows when covered with incombustible material. 


Section 8. Permit Required . 

No wall, building or part thereof, or no enlargement or altera- 
tion made to an existing wall, structure or building, costing more 
than $100.00 shall be built, until duplicate plans showing the 
details of the proposed work, accompanied by duplicate specifi- 
cations covering material or materials to be used, have been 
submitted to and approved by the Building Commissioner, and 
a permit issued for the proposed construction or alteration. One 
set of the approved plans and specifications shall be retained by 
the Building Commissioner and the other set shall be kept at 
the building during its construction. No changes from the ap- 
proved plans shall be made until revised plans and specifications 
have been submitted to and approved by the Building Commis- 
sioner. 

Structures subject to the provisions of this ordinance here- 
after erected without permit, and not in conformity with this 
ordinance, shall be removed. 

No wood frame building shall be moved from without to with- 
in or from one place to another within the fire limits and no 
building of any type shall be moved until a permit has been 
obtained from the Building Commissioner; and no permit shall 
be issued for moving a building to a new location unless the ap- 
plication for the permit is accompanied by a letter from the 
Chief of the City Fire Department stating that the proposed new 
location would not seriously increase the fire hazard of sur- 
rounding buildings. | 

No building within the fire limits other than a fire proof build- 
ing may be repaired to more than 50 per cent of its value, and 
no permit shall be issued for altering a building in the fire limits 
unless the application for permit is accompanied by a letter from 
the Commissioner of Public Health and Safety stating that the 
existing building is suitable for repairs or alterations. 


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Section 9. Fees For Permits 

The fees for building permits shall be as follows: 

Five dollars for work costing over $100.00 and not over 
$2000.00. 

For work costing more than $2000.00 the fee shall be $3.00 for 
each $1,000.00 or fraction thereof. 

For moving a building the fee for permit shall be $25.00 re- 
gardless of value or size of building. 

The fees for permits to tear up streets and sidewalks shall be 
as follows: 

For macadam pavement, 20 cents per square yard, but the 
minimum charge shall be $5.00. 

For concrete, brick or asphalt pavement, 50 cents per square 
yd., but the minimum charge shall be $5.00. 

For sidewalks, 25 cents per square yd., but the minimum 
_ charge shall be $5.00. 

Any building permit under which no construction work is 
commenced within six months from and after the date of is- 
suance thereof or under which the proposed construction has 
not been completed within two years of the date of issuance 
thereof, shall expire by limitation, and no construction, altera- 
tion or removal shall take place after such expiration. All fees 
paid on such permit shall be forfeited to the City of Waukegan. 
Upon payment of ten cents per month on each thousand dollars 
of cost on which the original permit was issued, but not less than 
one dollar per month in any case, a building permit may be once 
extended for a period not exceeding six months upon the ap- 
proval of the Building Commissioner. 


PART II 
Definition and Standards 


Section 10. Fireproof Construction 


A building is of fireproof construction if all the walls, parti- 
tions, piers, columns, floors, ceilings, roof and stairs are built of 
incombustible material; and if all metallic structural members 
are protected by an incombustible fire resisting covering of low 
heat conductivity. Such covering shall consist of Portland ce- 
ment concrete, brick gypsum terra cotta, or tile, laid in cement 
mortar, or other approved material and shall be properly rein- 
forced, bonded, wired or otherwise secured in place. Protected 
as in Section 45. No wood lath or wood furring strips shall 
form the support for plastering surfaces. Page 4 for permissive 
use of wood floor surfacing. 

The following building materials, systems, units and forms of 
construction, assembled and constructed as hereinafter required, 
shall be accepted as fireproof construction: 


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‘Brick (clay or concrete) 
Hollow brick (clay or concrete) 
Plain or reinforced concrete 
Precast reinforced concrete units 
Hollow or solid conerete block 
Plain or reinforced gypsum 

_ Precast reinforced gypsum units 
Hollow or solid gypsum block 
Hollow terra-cotta tile (clay or shale) 
Book tile (clay or shale) 
Metal lath and portland cement plaster 


The Building Commissioner shall have authority to approve 
the materials listed above and also other materials not listed 
above. 


The trimmings and finished floor may be of wood, provided all 
spaces behind or below same are filled with incombustible mate- 
rial. Partitions entirely contained within a private apartment 
may be non-fireproof provided the partitions enclosing such 
apartment are fireproof. 


A room or a portion of building is of fireproof construction 
if it complies with all the above requirements, and is separated 
from the rest of the building by means of fireproof walls, floors 
and ceiling, in which all openings are protected by means of 
fire doors or fixed standard fire windows. 


Section. 11. Protected Construction 

Steel Lumber Floor Panels. Floor panels will be considered 
of protected construction if built of approved metal (See Section 
46) designed to resist all stresses independent of any protective 
covering, and protected on the upper and lower sides. Steel 
lumber joists shall not be spaced more than 24 inches center to 
center, well bridged with proper tension strips. The upper slab 
shall be reinforced concrete not less than 2 inches thick over all 
structural metal. Expanded metal or metal lath of proper 
weight and rigidity to span the joist spacing, well fastened to 
joists, may be used for reinforcement, but no metal less than 
24 gauge shall be used. Lower side of joists and structural sup- 
ports shall be protected by not less than % inch cement plaster 
on expanded metal or metal lath. The upper slab and plastered 


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ceiling shall create air spaces between the metal floor supports 
completely isolated from the open atmosphere. 

Connections of metal joists to beams, girders and other bear- 
ings shall be in a manner approved by the Building Commis- 
sioner. 

All columns supporting floor panels of protected construction 
shall be protected as in Section 10. The lower flanges of struc- 
tural members other than metal joists shall be kept away one 
inch from ceiling plaster with metal furring. The metal of 
beams, girders and joists between the upper slab and plastered 
ceiling of floor construction need not be covered. 

All steel lumber floor joists shall receive two protective coats 
of oil and lead or bituminous paint before being placed in 
position. 

Metal lumber shall not be used in floor panels having less than 
three feet of well ventilated air space below or in floor panels 
over damp basements. 

Steel Lumber Partitions. Partitions will be considered of 
protected construction if built of approved metal (see Section 
46) designed to resist all stresses independent of any protective 
covering, and protected on both sides with metal lath and not 
less than 34, inch of cement or gypsum plaster. The covering 
of metal lath and plaster shall create air spaces between the 
metal completely isolated from the open atmosphere. 

Where steel lumber is used in bearing partitions approved 
connections must be made with proper top and bottom bearings. 

All steel lumber shall receive two protective coats of oil and 
lead or bituminous paint before being placed in position. 


Section 12. Mill Construction 

A building is of mill construction if all walls are built of in- 
combustible material, and if all wood girders and joists are at 
least 514 inches thick. No wood girder or joist shall measure 
less than 63 square inches and no wood posts less than 90 square 
inches in sectional area, except that 714x714 (or larger) posts 
may be used in the top story only. All structural steel or iron 
(not including post caps, bases, and joists hangers) shall be fire- 
proofed with not less than one inch of incombustible material 
or with metal lath and cement or gypsum plaster. The lower 
thickness of each floor shall be not less than 256 inch lumber 
with grooves and splines at the joints; this shall be covered with 
felt or building paper, and with a separate finished floor not 
less than 13/16 inch thick. , 

Note: Floor joists shall be at least 714 inches thick. The 
roof shall be at least 214 inches thick and shall have an incom- 
bustible roof covering; if an airtight roof covering (such as felt 
or tin) is not used, then the roof planking shall be in two thick- 
nesses, with felt or building paper between. 


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There shall be no openings in the floor unless protected by 
standard fire doors, and no concealed air spaces except such as 
are enclosed by incombustible material. 

All stairways and elevators shall be enclosed with standard 
fireproof enclosures. 


Section 13. Ordinary Construction 

A building is of ordinary construction if ail enclosing walls 
consist of incombustible material, and the roof has an incombus- 
tible covering, but other requirements for fire proof or mill con- 
struction are not complied with. No joists, rafter, or stud shall 
be less than 2 inches thick. In buildings of more than one story, 
floor and roof joists shall not be supported by combustible stud 
partitions, but shall be supported by incombustible walls or 
partitions, or by semi-fireproof partitions (Section 19) or by 
columns and girders. If a bearing partition is supported by a 
steel girder, the portion of such girder which projects below the 
ceiling shall be covered with metal lath and plaster or other 
approved fire-proofing. 


Section 14. Frame Buildings 
A frame building is a building whose structural parts and en- 
closing walls consist of wood. If such enclosing walls are ve- 
neered, encased or faced with stone, brick, tile, concrete, plaster 
or metal whose stability or rigidity depends upon the frame wall, 
the building is also termed a frame building. 


Section 15. Height of a Building 

The height of a building is measured at the center line of its 
principal front, from the street grade (or if setting back from 
the street from the grade of the ground adjoining the building) 
to the highest part of the roof, if a flat roof, or to a point 14 the 
height of the roof, if a gabled or hipped roof. If the grade of the 
lot or adjoining street in the rear or alongside of the building 
falls below the grade at the front, the height shall be measured 
at the center of the lowest side. 


Section 16. Basement; First Floor; Number of Stories 

A basement is a story whose floorline is below the grade at the 
main entrance and whose ceiling is not more than nine feet 
above such grade. The first floor is the floor next above the 
basement, or the lowest floor if there is no basement. The num- 
ber of stories of a building includes all stories except the base- 
ment. | 

Section 17. Incombustible Roof Covering 

A roof covering is considered incombustible if made of three 

thicknesses of roofing felt with tar and gravel, or if made of tin, 


corrugated iron, galvanized iron, or other approved fire resisting 
material. 


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Sidewalks Chimneys 


Driveways Fire Places 
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Bridges Filling 
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Concrete floors Walls 


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All work done under the careful supervision of a 


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Section 18. Street, Alley, Court 
A street is any public thoroughfare more than twenty feet in 
width. An alley is any public thoroughfare less than twenty 
feet but not less than ten feet in width. Any space less than ten 
feet wide is a court. 
Section 19. Standard Fire Stops 


Standard Fire Wall. A. standard fire wall shall be built of 
brick or plain concrete or of solid or hollow concrete block not 
less than twelve inches in solid thickness, or of reinforced con- 
crete not less than six inches thick. The material used must 
meet the requirements specified for that material either in Sec- 
tion 44 or Section 45. Every standard fire wall shall extend 
either from the foundation or from a fireproof floor, to a fire- 
proof ceiling; or if the roof is not fireproof, such wall shall ex- 
tend at least three feet above the highest adjoining roof line of 
the same building and shall be capped with stone, tile, concrete 
or other indestructible material. Every opening in a standard 
fire wall shall be closed with a standard fire door or a fixed stand- 
ard fire window. 


Standard Fireproof Enclosure or Partition. A standard fire- 
proof enclosure or partition shall be made either of wire glass 
in metal frame, or of solid portland cement plaster not less than 
two inches thick on metal lath and metal frame (all metal of 
lath and frame to be well covered), or of reinforced concrete 
not less than three inches thick, or of plain concrete, brick, block 
or tile not less than four inches thick. The thickness must in 
all cases be sufficient to give rigidity. A standard fireproof en- 
closure or partition must rest on a masonry foundation or a fire- 
proof floor; and must extend to a fireproof or semi-fireproof 
roof or ceiling. The wire glass in a fireproof enclosure or par- 
tition shall conform to the requirements for standard fire win- 
dows and the doors shall be standard fire doors; except that the 
doors may contain wire glass as specified for standard fire 
windows. 

Standard Fire Door. A standard fire door shall consist of a 
wooden core encased with tin, or shall be entirely of metal; and 
shall be of design approved by the National Board of Fire Un- 
derwriters. The door frame shall be metal. The door shall 
close automatically in case of fire. 

Standard Fire Window. A standard fire window shall have 
a metal frame, metal sash, and wire glass of design approved 
by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. No pane shall be 
less than 14 inch thick nor of greater area than 720 square 
inches. The window either shall be fixed or shall close auto- 
matically in case of fire. 

Semi-Fireproof Partitions. A semi-fireproof partition shall 
be constructed of not less than 15x35 inch studding spaced not 
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at right angles with the plane of the wall, and having the fol- 
lowing protection on both sides of the partition. 

(1) Metal lath and at least 34 inch of portland cement or 
gypsum plaster, or gauged plaster containing one-half part lime, 
one-half part (or more) portland cement, and not over four 
parts sand; or 

(2) Good quality plaster board at least 14 inch thick, covered 
with sheet metal; or 

(8) 4 inch asbestos board, covered with at least 14 inch 
portland cement or gypsum plaster, or with sheet metal; or two 
layers of 14, inch asbestos board, breaking joints; or 

(4) The spaces between studding may be filled with approved 
incombustible material, the partitions being plastered with 
portland cement or gypsum plaster on metal lath; or 

(5) Other equivalent approved fire resisting construction. 
Below every hollow semi-fireproof partition, whether bearing or 
non-bearing, the spaces between floor joists shall be fire stopped 
with incombustible material extending the full height of the 
joists and the full thickness of the partition. 

Every doorway in a semi-fireproof partition shall be pro- 
tected with a standard fire door or with a self closing wooden 
door at least % inch thick in its thinnest part. The glass in 
such partitions and doors shall be wire glass. 

Semi-Fireproof Ceiling. A  semi-fireproof ceiling shall be 
constructed of not less than 15% inch joists, spaced not more 
than 16 inches center to center, protected on the under side of 
the same as specified for a semi-fireproof partition; but gypsum 
plaster shall not be used for basement ceilings. The spaces be- 
tween the joists shall be fire stopped, at intervals not greater 
than 25 feet, with incombustible material extending the full 
height of the joists. 

Combustible Partitions or Ceilings. Every partition, ceiling 
or wall which is not fireproof, or semi-fireproof is considered 
combustible. 

Section 20. Stairways and Exits 

Exits may be classified as follows: 

(1) Stair Exits: 

Exterior enclosed stairway, or smoke proof tower. 

Interior enclosed stairway. 

(2) Horizontal Exits. 


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The foregoing types of exits are now generally agreed to be 
the most efficient. Enclosed stair shafts and fireproof divided 
partitions prevent the spread of fire and protect both life and 
property. The exterior enclosed stairway, or smoke proof tower, 
is the safest possible form of stair exit and also furnishes a 
ee position from which firemen can attack a fire on any 

oor. 

The following types of exits have a limited value and are 
permitted under certain conditions: 

(8) Open or unenclosed stairways: 

Interior. 

Exterior. 

(4) Fire Escapes: 

““A”’ Fire Escapes. 

“B” Fire Escapes. 

Unenclosed stairways and outside fire escapes are not reliable 
for protection of life, except in low buildings, and are no pro- 
tection for property. 

To secure the best possible fire protection in a building ac- 
commodating a considerable number of persons, the building 
should be divided by a fireproof wall or partition, the two sec- 
tions being connected by horizontal exits through or around the 
dividing wall, and each section being provided with one or more 
enclosed stairways; one stairway should be an exterior enclosed 
stairway, if possible. In case of fire in one section of such a 
building, the occupants can escape by the horizontal exits to the 
other section, and thence leave the building by means of the 
stairways, without panic. The same protection can be obtained 
in the case of two adjoining buildings, by connecting the two 
buildings with horizontal exits, each building being provided 
with one or more enclosed stairway. Where only a moderate 
number of persons are accommodated, the dividing partition is 
not so essential, but the stairways should be enclosed. 

Fire drills are of great value in lessening the danger of panic 
and loss of life. 

(For the number, size, type and location of exits in buildings 
of various classes, see sections on exits in Parts V to VIII.) 

Exterior Enclosed Stairway. (Smoke Proof Tower). An 
exterior enclosed stairway shall be an enclosed stairway which 
is entirely cut off from the building and which is reached by 
means of open balconies or platforms. The entire stair en- 
closure, stairway balconies and balcony railings shall be made 
of incombustible material throughout. The wall separating the 
stairway from the building shall not be pierced by any door, 
window, or other opening. In a fireproof building this wall 
shall be built as prescribed for a standard fireproof enclosure 
(Section 19,) but without glass; in a non-fireproof building, this 
wall shall be built as prescribed for an outside wall (Section 


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44). The doors leading from the buildings to the balconies and 
from the balconies to the stairway shall be standard fire doors, 
and all openings within ten feet of any balcony shall be pro- 
tected with standard fire windows or standard fire doors. Each 
balcony shall be covered at the top and shall be open on at least ~ 
one side, with a railing on all open sides not less than three 
feet high. = 
Interior Enclosed Stairway. An interior enclosed stairway 
shall be completely enclosed with a standard fireproof enclosure 
(Section 19); except that in buildings of not more than two 
stories, such stairways may be enclosed with semi-fireproof par- 
titions. (Section 19). In theatres and assembly halls, the 
door at the top of the stairway may be omitted. 
The enclosure shall include at each floor level a portion of such 
floor which shall be at least as wide as the stairway; and such 
enclosure shall also include the passageway (if any) leading 
from the stairway to an outside door; so as to afford uninter- 
rupted passage from the uppermost floor to such outside door, 
without leaving the enclosure. If windows are placed in such 
pene (excepting in the outside wall), such windows shall 
e fixed. 


All Stair Exits: Width. Every required stairway whether 
enclosed or not, shall be at least three feet eight inches wide, of 
which not more than four inches on each side may be occupied 
by a handrail. Every platform shall be at least as wide as the 
stairway, measuring at right angles to the direction of travel. 
Every straight run platform shall measure at least four feet in 
the direction of travel. Wherever a door opens onto a stairway, 
a platform shall be provided extending the full width of the 

oor. 


The width of any stairway shall be the clear distance between 
walls or stringers, of which not more than four inches on each 
side may be occupied by a handrail. | 

If other stairways are provided in addition to those required 
by this code, such additional stairways need not conform to this 
paragraph. en 

All Stair Exits: Handrails. All stairways and steps of more - 
than three risers shall have at least one handrail. Stair- 
ways and steps five feet or more in width, or open on both sides, 
shall have a handrail on each side. Stairways which are re- 
quired to be more than eight feet wide shall be divided by center 
rails into widths not more than eight feet nor less than three 
feet eight inches. Center rails shall have upper newel posts at 
least five feet six inches high, or rails may be turned down to 
the floor in a manner to prevent hindrance. Rails shall be not - 
less than two feet. six inches vertically above nose of treads or 
three feet above platform. 

(For theatres and assembly halls see also Section 63). 


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All Stair Exits: Risers and Treads. All stairways and steps 
used by the public or by more than twenty persons, shall have a 
uniform rise of not more than 734, inches and a uniform tread of 
not less than 914 inches, measuring from tread to tread, and 
from riser to riser; no winders shall be used; there shall not 
be more than 18 risers between platforms or between floor and 
platform or not more than 22 risers from floor to floor with no 
platform; in stairs used by the public (theatres, public assembly 
halls, retail stores, schools, hotels, and similar buildings) there 
shall be not less than three risers between platform or between 
floor and platform. Stairways or steps not used by the public or 
by more than twenty persons shall have a uniform rise of not. 
more than eight inches and a uniform tread of not less than nine 
inches; if winders are used, the tread shall be at least seven 
inches ‘wide at a point one foot from the narrow end. 


The edges of all treads, and the edges of stairway landings 
must be finished with a non-slippery surface. 
(For theatres and assembly halls, see also Section 63). 


Section 21. Horizontal Exits 


A horizontal exit shall be either: 

(1) An opening through a fireproof wall or partition (Section 
19) which separates two buildings or two divisions of a build- 
ing; every such opening shall be protected by a standard fire 
door on each side of the wall, and the door on one side shall be 
self-closing; the opening shall not exceed 48 square feet in area; 
or 

(2) An exterior balcony or bridge which connects two build- 
ings or two. divisions of a building. Every such balcony or 
bridge, including its railings, its supporting brackets or beams, 
and the exits thereto, shall be constructed the same as specified 
for fire escapes (Section 22). The floor shall not have a slope 
of more than one foot in five. All doors and windows which 
open onto the balcony or bridge, or which are within ten feet 
of the same, shall be standard fire doors or standard fire win- 
dows; but if such doors and windows are in walls which are in 
the same plane, then this requirement shall apply only to those 
doors and windows which are within five feet of the dividing 
wall. 

If a horizontal exit takes the place of an “‘A”’ standard fire es- 
cape, it shall be at least two feet six inches wide; if it takes the 
place of a “‘B” standard fire escape, it shall be at least three feet 
four inches wide. 

The floor on each side of a horizontal exit shall contain at 
least three square feet of unobstructed floor space per person, 
for all persons accommodated on both sides of such exit; and 
shall contain at least one stairway. 


(See also Section 23). 
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Section 22. Fire Escapes 


Location. Every fire escape shall be so located as to lead di- 
rectly to a street, alley, or open court connected with a street. 

Every fire escape shall be placed against a blank wall if pos- 
sible. If such a location is not possible, then every wall opening 
which is less than ten feet distant from any riser of the fire 
escape shall be protected by a standard fire door or standard fire 
window, except in the top story, and excepting two story build- 
ings other than theatres and assembly halls. 

Exits to Fire Escapes. Every fire escape shall be accessible 
from a public passageway or shall be directly accessible from 
each occupied room. Exits to fire escapes shall be standard exit 
doors (Section 23) except that doors to “‘A” fire escapes may 
be not less than two feet six inches wide. 

Material and Strength. No other material than wrought iron 
or soft or medium steel shall be used for any part of a fire es- 
cape, except for weights, separators, and ornaments. No bar 
material less than one-quarter inch thick shall be used in the 
construction of any fire escape, except for separators, orna- 
ments, structural shapes over three inches and rigidly built up 
treads and platforms of approved design. All bolts and rivets, 
except for ornamental work, shall be not less than 3% inch in 
diameter. 

Each part of every fire escape (except counter-weights for 
balanced stairways) shall be designed and constructed to carry 
a live load of 100 pounds per square foot of horizontal area over 
the entire fire escape. Each part of every fire escape shall be 
designed and constructed in accordance with the requirements 
on Structural Design (Section 46) except that the unit stresses 
therein specified shall be reduced by one-fourth. The minimum 
sections and sizes specified below shall be increased whenever 
necessary so that under full load the allowable unit stresses will 
not be exceeded. 

Platforms. Each platform of an “A” fire escape shall be at 
least 28 inches wide; each platform of a “B”’ fire escape shall be 
at least three feet four inches wide. Such widths shall be the 
clear distance between stringers, measured at the narrowest 
point. Each platform shall extend at least four inches beyond 
the jambs of exit openings. The above minimum widths and 
lengths shall be increased, wherever necessary, so that no exit 


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door or window will when open, block any part of the required 
width of the fire escape. 

Every platform shall consist of ative: 

(1) Flat bars on edge not less than 1x14, inch; but not less 
than 114,.x14 inch where bolts and separators are used; bars shall 
not be more than 114, inches center to center. 

(2) 4% inch or 5% inch square bars with sharp edge up, not 
more than 114 inches center to center. 

(3) % inch round bars, not more than 114 inches center to 
center. 

Platform and treads may be solid if covered by a roof. 


The platform frame shall consist of not less than 2x%@ inch 
flat bars on edge or equivalent, provided the brackets are not 
more than four feet-apart. If brackets are more than four feet 
apart, the frame shall be correspondingly stronger and stiffer. 
Every platform wider than thirty inches, if made of square or 
round bars, shall have a third frame bar through the center; 
if made of flat bars, the platform shall have separators and bolts 
through the center. Frame bars shall not project more than 14, 
inch above platform bars, except around the outside of platform. 

There shall be a platform at each story above the first, and 
intermediate platforms if floors are more than sixteen feet apart 
vertically. 

Platforms shall not be more than eight inches below the door 
sill. 


Brackets. Brackets for a 28 inch or 30 inch platform, when 
spaced not more than four feet apart, shall be made of not less 
than Y% inch square bars or 114x1!4x14 inch angles; such bars 
or angles shall be larger if the platform is wider or if the brack- 
ets are farther apart. Each bracket shall be fastened at the 
top, to the wall, by a through bolt (at least 7% inch in diameter) 
nut, and washer (at least four inches in diameter). The slope 
of the lower bracket bar shall be not less‘than thirty degrees 
with the horizontal. The lower bar shall have a washer or 
shoulder to give sufficient bearing against the wall. 


The strength of the wall to which brackets are to be attached 
shall be carefully considered in determining the spacing, shape, 
and inside connections of brackets, so that under full load the 
wall will not be unduly strained. 


Stairways. Each stairway of an “A” fire escape shall be at 
least 24 inches wide between stringers; such stairway shall have 
a uniform rise of not more than eight inches, and a uniform run 
of not less than eight inches. 

Each stairway of a “B”’ fire escape shall be at least three feet 
four inches wide between stringers; such stairway shall have a 


uniform rise of not more than eight inches, and a uniform run 
of not less than nine inches. 


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Stairway stringers shall consist of either: 

(1) A 5 inch channel or larger. 

(2) Two angles 2x2x14 inch or larger. 

(8) Two flat bars 2x%% inch or larger. 

(4) One flat bar 6x14, inch or larger. 

If two angles or two flat. bars are used, they shall be properly 
tied together by lattice bars, vertical as well as horizontal. If 
flat bars are used, every stairway of more than ten risers.shall 
have lateral bracing. The connection of stringers to platform at 
top and bottom, shall be at least equal in strength to the string- 
ers and shall safely carry the full live and dead loads. If string- 
ers are carried by intermediate brackets, the stringers shall have 
a horizontal bearing on the brackets and shall be properly and 
securely connected thereto. 

Treads shall consist of either flat or square bars (not round), 
of the size and spacing specified for platforms. An ‘‘A” tread 
shall consist of at least six square bars, or seven flat bars. A 
“B” tread shall consist of at least seven square bars, or eight 
flat bars. A’“B” tread made of flat bars shall have separators 
and bolt through the center. A “B” tread made of square bars 
shall be trussed. : , 

Treads and platforms may be solid if covered by a roof. 

Balanced Stairway. All fire escapes on schools, theatres and 
assembly halls, shall reach to the ground. ‘‘A”’ fire escapes which 
are not on schools, theatres or assembly halls, may terminate in 
a platform at least three feet long, located not more than ten 
feet above the ground. All other fire escapes shall have a bal- 
anced stairway reaching to the ground. 

Every balanced stairway shall conform to the requirements 
for other stairways except that the stringers and the top rail 
may be lighter if they are properly trussed. The counterbalanc- 
ing device shall be attached to both sides of the stairway equally, 
or a special attachment shall be used to prevent warping or 
twisting. The counterbalancing device shall operate gradually 
and easily as the live load is applied. Cable counterweights are 
not permitted. 

Treads for “A” balanced Sterl Portia’ may be made as follows: 
two 1144x114x inch angles at front and back; two 1144x\4, 
inch bars between, lying flat-wise; one inch space between bars. 
Treads for “B”’ balanced stairways may be made as follows: two 
114x114x14 inch angles at front and back; two 1!4xl4 inch 
_ bars between, lying flatwise; one inch space between bars. All 

such treads shall be strongly fastened together with cross bars 
not more than 14 inches apart. 

Railings. Railings shall. be provided on all open sides of plat- 
forms and stairways, and on both sides of balanced stairways. 
Hither a railing or a handrail fastened to wall shall be provided 
on each side of all “B” fire escape stairways. Railings shall be 


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at least three feet high, measuring vertically from floor of plat- 
form or from nose of step. 


Every railing shall have posts, not more than five feet apart 
made of not less than 114x114x14, inch angles or tees, or 
114-inch pipe; top rail not less than 114,.x114.x14, inch angle, or 
equivalent; center rail not less than 114,x5/16 flat bar or equiva- 
lent. All connections shall be such as to make the railing stiff; 
two bolts (38-inch or larger) shall be used at the foot of each 
post wherever possible, or at least one 14-inch bolt shall be used. 
Railings shall be continuous. No projections on the inside of the 
railing shall be permitted. Where a railing returns to the wall, 
it shall be fastened thereto with a through bolt (at least 5-inch 
in diameter), nut, and washer; or (in reinforced concrete) with 
an approved insert; or the railing shall be made equally secure 
with a diagonal brace extending at least three feet horizontally 
and three feet vertically. 


All outside railings which are more than sixty feet above 
grade shall be at least six feet high, measuring vertically from 
floor of platform or from nose of step. Such railings shall be 
of special design approved by the Building Commissioner, hav- 
ing not less than four longitudinal rails, and vertical lattice 
bars not more than eight inches apart, and proper stiffening 
braces or brackets. 


Ladder to Roof. Every fire escape which extends higher than 
the second floor shall be provided with a ladder leading from 
the upper platform to the roof, unless the fire escape stairway 
leads to the roof. The ladder shall have stringers not less than 
114 inch pipe, or not less than 2x3¢-inch flat bars, at least 17 
inches apart in the clear. The rungs shall be not less than 
14-inch square or %-inch round bars 14 inches center to center. 
The stringers shall be securely tied together at intervals no 
greater than every fifth rung. The top rung of each ladder shall 
be not less than four feet above the roof coping, and the ladder 
shall return within two feet of the roof if the coping is more 
than two feet above the roof. 


Standpipe. A Standpipe shall be attached to every fire escape 
on every building of more than three stories not having an auto- 
matic sprinkler system; except that buildings requiring more 
than one fire escape on any side thereof, shall be provided with 
at least one standpipe on each side. 


Every standpipe shall extend from a point within five feet of 
the ground to a point three feet above the roof or cornice, and 
shall be securely fastened to and accessible from each platform. 
The standpipe shall be made of not less than three inch wrought 
pipe, with 214-inch outlet hose valve at each floor and at roof, 
and a double Siamese valve at the base of the pipe. All connec- 
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department, and the entire standpipe shall conform to all re- 
quirements of such department. 


Other Types of Fire Escapes. Sliding or chute fire escape 
may be used, upon the approval of the Building Commissioner 
in place of “A” or “B” fire escapes. Every sliding fire escape 
shall be provided with a ladder (constructed as described in this 
section, under the heading ‘‘Ladder to Roof’’) extending from 
five feet above grade to four feet above the roof coping. 


Section 23. Standard Exit Doors 

Every door which serves as a required exit from a public pas- 
sageway or stairway, or which forms a horizontal exit, shall be 
a standard exit door. (See also Sections 49, 63, 79 and 94). 

Every standard exit door shall swing outward or toward the 
natural means of egress, except as below and as in Sections 49 
and 94. It shall be level with the floor, and shall be so hung 
that,when open, it will not block any part of the required width ° 
of any other doorway, passageway, stairway, or fire escape. No 
revolving door (unless collapsible) and no sliding door, except 
where it opens onto a stairway enclosure, or serves as a hori- 
zontal exit, shall be considered as a standard exit door. 


A standard exit door shall have such fastenings or hardware 
that it can be opened from the inside without using a key, by 
pushing against a single bar or plate, or turning a single knob or 
handle; it shall not be locked, barred, or bolted at any time 
while the building is occupied. 

A standard exit doorway shall be not less than six feet four 
inches high by three feet four inches wide, except where espe- 
cially provided (Sections 79 and 94). No such doorway or 
group of doorways shall be more than six inches narrower than 
the required width of the stairway or passageway leading 
thereto. 

In every building which is used at night, a red exit light shall 
be placed over every emergency exit door and also over every 
exit door where other doors or openings may cause confusion. 
(See also Sections 49, 71, and 95). 


Section 24. Location and Maintenance of Exits 


Every exit mentioned in Sections 20 and 23 shall lead to a 
street, alley or open court connected with a street. All such 


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exits, and all passageways leading to and from the same, shall 
be kept in good repair and unobstructed at all times. 


Section 25. Standpipes, Fire Extinguishers, and Sprinklers 
(For exterior standpipes See Section ,22). 


Interior Standpipes. (For the number and location of interior — 
standpipes required in buildings of various classes, see the sec- 
tions on standpipes in Part V to VIII). 


Standpipes shall connect with city water mains or with an 
elevated tank of approved design and capacity, and shall be 
provided with hose and valve at each story, located not more 
than five feet above the floor. 


The hose shall be not less than 1!4 inches in diameter, and 
‘ shall be kept connected, in good repair and working order, and 
ready for immediate use at all times. 


The size of pipes and other details of installation, shall be as 
approved by the Building Commissioner. 


An approved automatic sprinkler system will be accepted as 
a substitute for interior standpipes, except in theatres. (See 
Section 73). 


Fire Extinguishers. Where chemical fire extinguishers are 
required, they shall be of the 2!4 gallon soda acid type, or other 
type approved by the Building Commissioner. Soda-acid ex- 
tinguishers shall be discharged and recharged at least once a 
year; others shall be charged as required. 


Automatic Sprinklers. Where an automatic sprinkler sys- 
tem is required throughout the building (Sections 55 and 73) 
such system shall be supplied either from the city water mains 
or from a gravity or pressure tank. If city water supply of 
adequate volume and pressure is not available, a tank shall be 
provided. 

Where automatic sprinklers are required in the basement only 
(Section 55), they shall be supplied from the city water mains. 


Every basement sprinkler system shall also include sprinklers 
in all shafts (except elevator shafts) leading upward from the 
basement. 


Every sprinkler system shall also have a suitable connection 
for the fire department. Where a complete sprinkler system is 
provided (whether required or not) exterior and interior stand- 
pipes may be omitted, except for interior standpipes in theatres. 
The number and location of sprinklers, size of pipe, size and 
location of tank (if any), and all other details of equipment, 
Shall conform to the best standard practice. 


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PART III 
General Requirements 


Section 26. Design and Supervision of Buildings 


Every building shall be designed by a competent architect, 
structural engineer, or builder, in accordance with this code; 
and shall be constructed under the supervision of a competent 
superintendent or inspector, in accordance with the plans and 
specifications of the designer. The designer may also act as 
superintendent. No material change from the original plans 
and specifications shall be made except with the knowledge and 
consent of the designer. No owner shall construct any building 
or permit any building to be constructed except in accordance 
with this section. 

Unsafe or Unsanitary Buildings. Repair or Removal of Same. 
When any building, or part thereof, or any structure of like 
nature is in a condition dangerous, insecure, unsafe or unsanitary 
in the opinion of* the Building Commissioner, he shall cause 
notice in writing to be given the owner, occupants, lessees or 
persons in possession, charge or control of such place or build- 
ing to make such changes, alterations or repairs, as safety or 
the Ordinances of the City may require. 


If, at the expiration of the time specified in such notice for 
the completion of work required to be done by the terms of such 
notice, in order to render the building or structure safe, said 
notice shall not have been complied with, and said building or 
structure is in such unsafe or unsanitary condition as to en- 
danger life or property, or the health of the occupants or of the 
community or neighborhood, it shall be the duty of the Police of 
said City upon order to that effect from the City Commission to 
proceed forthwith to tear down such unsafe, or unsanitary con- 
dition, as aforesaid or to take such measures as may seem nec- 
essary to put such building or structure in a safe and sanitary 
condition. 

An itemized account of the expenses of tearing down and 
removing such building or structure or of putting same in a safe 
and sanitary condition shall be presented to the owner or own- 
ers of such building or structure or his or their agents or to such 
lessee or occupants for payment and in case the owner or own- 
ers, lessee or occupants, as the case may be, shall fail or refuse, 
upon demand, to pay the same then the same may be recovered 
from such owner or owners, lessee or occupants, in an action of 
debt in the name of the City. 


Section 27. Height and Class of Construction 
Buildings of mill construction shall be not higher than 65 feet 
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Buildings of ordinary construction shall be not higher than 55 
feet above the grade. 

Frame or veneered buildings shall be not higher than 40 feet 
above the grade. 

Roof appendages such as dormer windows, domes, towers, 
tanks, other than sprinkler tanks, turrets, spires, skylights, 
monitors, penthouses or other projections above the main roof 
of a building shall not exceed in total area 20 per cent of the 
main roof otherwise the building height limit shall apply to the 
roof of such appendage. 

No appendage, except sprinkler tanks, on the roof of a build- 
ing of mill construction shall exceed a height of 110 feet above 
the grade. 

No appendage, except sprinkler tanks, on the roof of a build- 
ing of ordinary construction shall exceed a height of 80 feet 
above the grade. 

No appendage, except sprinkler tanks, on the roof of any 
frame or veneered building shall exceed a height of 50 feet above 
the grade; the walls and roof of all such appendages shall be 
covered with incombustible material. 

A spire which does not exceed in total area 20 percent of the 
main roof will be excepted from the above limitations of height 
provided the following requirements are met with: 

(1) The spire must be supported by masonry or plain con- 
crete or reinforced concrete foundations and walls designed to 
support it independently of the rest of the building. 

(2) The supporting wall of the spire must extend at least 
as high as the ridge of the roof of the main building. 

(3) The spire must be protected against lightning. 

In every building more than four stories in height, all Ge 
side doors and windows shall be standard fire doors and standard 
fire windows, if they are less than 20 feet away from any ad- 
joining lot line or from the center of an adjoining alley, or if 
they are less than 40 feet away from any other building; but this 
shall not apply to walls, windows and doors which lie in the 
same parallel planes facing in the same direction. 

Any portion of a building which is of inferior type of con- 
struction or which is exposed to special fire hazard, shall be 
isolated by means of standard fire walls or fireproof enclosure, 
or partitions, and fire-resisting ceilings, floors and doors, or as 
directed by the Building Commissioner. 


Section 28. Floor Areas. 
The maximum undivided floor area in any building shall be as 
follows: 
Fireproof construction 16,000 square feet. 
Mill construction 8,000 square feet. 
Ordinary construction 6,500 square feet. 


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Frame buildings 4,000 square feet. 

The areas in the foregoing table may be increased as follows: 

In one-story and two-story buildings, by 50 per cent. 

In buildings equipped with an approved automatic sprinkler 
system, by 66 2/3 per cent. 

{n buildings fronting on at least three streets, or two streets 
and an alley, by 20 per cent. 

Every such increase shall be computed on the original maxi- 
mum area. The increases are cumulative. Where both the 
building and its contents are practically incombustible such area 
may be increased if approved in writing by the Building Com- 
missioner. 

Where a dividing wall is required in any building such wall 
shall be of solid incombustible fire resisting material of the 
same thickness as required for enclosing walls; and shall be 
continuous from the foundation to the roof, in a fireproof build- 
ing, or to three feet above the roof in a non-fireproof building. 
Each opening in a division wall shall have a standard fire door 
on each side of the wall. 


Section 29. Windows and Courts 

Windows. Every room in which one or more persons live, 
sleep, or are employed (except storage rooms or other rooms 
where the nature of the occupancy will not permit), shall be 
lighted by a window or windows opening directly upon a street 
or alley or upon a court on the same lot with the building. The 
windows shall be so constructed and distributed as to afford 
proper light and ventilation. Every building more than 40 feet 
deep (measuring at right angles to the windows) ean have 
windows on at least two sides. 

Definitions of Courts. By “inner court” is meant an open air 
shaft or court surrounded on all sides by walls. 

By “inner lot line court” is meant a court bounded on one side 
and both ends by walls and on the remaining side by a lot line. 

By “outer court” is meant a court extending to a street, alley, 
or open space not less than 15 feet wide. 

By “outer lot line court” is meant a court with one side on a 
lot line and opening to a street or open space not less than 15 
feet wide. 

In applying the following requirements, a building from 30 
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stories, and each additional 13 feet shall be considered an addi- 
tional story. . 

Size of Courts. No outer lot line court, measured from the lot 
line to the wall of the building, shall be less than 3 feet wide 
for a court two stories or less in height and 40 feet or less in 
length. For each additional story in height, the width of such 
court shall be increased one foot; and for each additional 15 feet 
or fraction thereof in length, the width of such court shall be - 
further increased one foot. 

‘No outer court between wings or parts of the same building, 
or between different buildings on the same lot, shall be less than 
6 feet wide for a court two stories or less in height and 40 feet 
or less in length. For each additional story in height, the width 
of such court shall be increased one foot; and for each additional 
10 feet or fraction thereof in length, the width of such court 
shall be further increased one foot. 

In the case of an outer court or an outer lot line court which © 
is open at each end to a street or open space not less than 15 
feet wide, the above lengths may be doubled. 

No inner lot line court shall be less than 6 feet in width, or 
less than 60 square feet in area, for courts two stories or less 
in height, except that an inner lot line court one story high shall 
be not less than 4 feet wide and not less than 40 square feet in 
area; and for every additional story every such inner lot line 
court shall be increased by at least one linear foot in its length 
and one linear foot in its width. 

No inner court shall be less than 10 feet in width nor less 
than 150 square feet in area for courts two stories or less in 
height; and for every additional story every such inner court 
shall be increased by at least one linear foot in its length and 
one linear foot in its width. 

No court shall be covered by a roof or skylight but the entire 
required area shall be open and unobstructed from the bottom 
thereof to the sky. No fire escape or stairway shall be con- 
structed in any court unless the court be enlarged proportion- 
ately. 

All walls of inner courts whose least horizontal dimension is 
less than one-fourth the height, shall be faced with material 
with a permanent white surface or shall be painted white at 
least every two years. 

No buildings shall be altered or enlarged to encroach upon 
space reserved under this code for light and air on the lots or 
parcels of ground on which such building is erected. 


Ventilation of Courts. At the bottom of every shaft or inner 
court there shall be sufficient access to such shaft or court to en- 
able it to properly be cleaned out. Every inner court which is 
required under this section and which is more than one story in 
height shall have an intake for fresh air, leading from the 


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street or other open space. The area of such intake in square 
feet shall equal at least two one-thousandths of the number of 
cubic feet contained in said court; but such area need not be 
more than 50 square feet. Every intake shall be constructed of 
fireproof material and unless said intake is used as a passage- 
way for persons, there shall be no openings into the same other 
than the inlet and outlet. 


Section 30. Boilers, Furnaces and Stoves 


Fireproof Room. Every boiler operating with more than 15 
pounds steam pressure per square inch shall, together with fur- 
nace and breeching, be enclosed with a standard fireproof en- 
closure and fire-proof ceiling and floor, or be located in a sep- 
arate building, or be separated from the remainder of the build- 
ing by a division wall as described in Section 28. 

Protection of Floor. Every boiler, furnace or oven shall be 
placed on a fireproof floor projecting at least two feet on all 
sides. Such floor shall also be provided for every coal, wood, or 
oil stove or range which is more than 16 feet square in horizontal 
area or which has a flame at the bottom. If any such floor 
rests on or is in contact with any combustible material, then the 
fireproof floor layer shall be at least 5 inches thick and shall be 
hollow, with air spaces running horizontally through the same. 
The air spaces shall be open at both ends and shall be so placed 
that air can circulate through them; the horizontal area shall 
equal at least one-half the horizontal area of the fireproof slab. 

The air spaces may be secured by using hollow tile placed end 
to end; or by imbedding wrought or sheet iron pipes (2 inches in 
_ diameter, or larger) in a layer of concrete. The air spaces shall 
run, parallel to the short dimension of the slab. 

If the stove, range, etc., is raised at least 6 inches above the 
floor and such air space is not enclosed, then the fireproof floor 
layer may be reduced to not less than 2 inches of solid thickness, 
without air spaces, provided it is covered with sheet metal. 

Every coal, wood, or oil stove or range not more than 16 
square feet in horizontal area and not having a flame at the bot- 
tom shall, if placed on a combustible floor, be raised at least 6 
inches above the floor, and such air space shall not be enclosed. 
Such floor shall be protected with a stove board of sheet metal 
or asbestos, projecting at least two feet on all sides. 

Gas stoves shall be protected as above specified, except that, 

(1) a three inch solid fireproof floor layer, projecting at 
least 6 inches on all sides, will be sufficient protection if the 
stove has a false bottom at least 3 inches above such fireproof 
floor; and 

(2) if the stove is less than 16 square feet in horizontal area 
and has a false bottom at least 5 inches above the floor, no fire- 
proof floor shall be required. 


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Protection of Walls and Ceilings. No boiler, furnace, oven or 
range, whether encased or not, shall be placed less than 24 
inches away from any non-fireproof wall partition or ceiling; 
except that such distance may be reduced to 12 inches if the 
wall, partition, or ceiling is protected with at least 14, inch as- 
bestos board covered with galvanized sheet metal, or with 
equivalent protection as specified in Section 19. 

The above distances may be reduced one-half in the case of 
stoves and ranges less than 16 square feet in area, and also in 
the case of gas ranges of greater area if proper insulation is in- 
corporated in the back of the range. 

The top of every boiler, furnace or oven, shall be covered with 
asbestos, sand, or other heat resisting material, or the required 
distance above same shall be increased 100 per cent. 


Section 31. Smoke Pipes 


No smoke pipe shall pass through any floor, outside window 
or door nor through any combustible roof or combustible out- 
side wail, nor through any closet, attic or similarly concealed 
space. 

Every smoke pipe passing through a non-fireproof partition 
shall be encased with incombustible material at least four inches 
thick or with a double safety thimble made of two concentric 
rings of sheet metal with at least one inch open air space be- 
tween and with the outer ring covered with at least 14-inch as- 
bestos. 


No part of any smokepipe shall be placed nearer to any non- 
fireproof partition or wall than the diameter of the pipe, nor 
nearer to any non-fireproof ceiling than one and one-half times 
the diameter; but the above distances may be reduced by one- 
half, if the wall or ceiling is covered with not less than 14-inch 
asbestos board covered with galvanized sheet metal, or with 
equivalent protection as specified in Section 19. i 


Section 32. Steam Pipes 


No steam pipe shall be placed within one inch of any wood- 
work. Every steam pipe passing through a combustible floor, 
ceiling or partition, shall be protected by a metal tube one inch 
larger in diameter than the pipe, and shall be provided with a 
metal cap. All wooden boxes or casings enclosing steam pipes, 
or wooden covers to recess in walls in which steam pipes are 
placed, shall be lined with metal, and shall be separated there- 
_ from by a one inch air space. 


Section 33. Air Pipes and Registers 
Hot Air Pipes. Every hot air pipe contained in or passing 
through a combustible partition or floor shall be placed inside 
another pipe arranged to maintain a !4-inch air space between 
the two pipes on all sides; or the pipe shall be securely covered 


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with 14-inch corrugated asbestos. The bend at the bottom of 
the vertical pipe shall be kept at least two inches from any wood- 
work. 

Registers. All register boxes shall be of metal, and shall either 
be double or be covered with asbestos not less than 14-inch thick. 

Hot Air and Ventilating Flues. Every vertical hot air and 
fresh air flue or. group of flues in the school, theatre and hotel 
groups shall be enclosed with, or constructed of, incombustible 
material at least two inches thick, lined with metal or smoothly 
finished on the inside; except that frame buildings not more than 
two stories in height may have metal flues if protected as re- 
quired in this Section. Horizontal ducts for hot air and fresh 
air, and all vent flues shall be constructed as required in this 
Section, or better. 3 

Section 34. Chimneys and Stacks 

Chimneys for high-pressure boilers, furnaces used in manu- 
facture, or for other heating appliances where high tempera- 
tures are maintained, and all isolated chimneys, shall be de- 
signed and built in accordance with good engineering practice 
and so that the stress in every part thereof, due to temperature 
changes, wind pressure, and the weight of the chimney itself, 
shall not exceed the safe limits specified in this code for the 
material used. 

All other chimneys forming a part of building construction 
and having smoke flues of 260 square inches or less shall have 
walls of brick (clay or concrete), reinforced concrete, stone, or 
any one of these and burned fire-clay tile flue lining and such 
flue lining shall be not less than three-fourths of an inch thick 
and shall extend from the lowest opening to the top of the chim- 
ney. If only one of the above materials is used, the chimney 
wall shall be not less than eight inches thick, except that it may 
be six inches thick if of reinforced concrete. If one of the above 
materials is used in combination with burned fire clay tile flue 
lining, it shall be not less than 334,-inches thick. Provided, how- 
ever, that such flues having walls at least three inches thick of 
continuous concrete or interlocking or rabbitted joint concrete 
sectional flues may be used without burned fire-clay tile flue 
lining of crushing strength of the concrete is at least equal to 
the strength specified in Section 45 for concrete used in rein- 
forced concrete construction. 


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Chimneys not governed by the first paragraph of this section, 
but forming a part of building construction and having smoke 
flues with areas greater than 260 square inches shall have walls 
four inches thicker than the thicknesses specified above for chim- 
neys having smoke flues with areas of 260 square inches or 
_less; provided however, that the material of which all chimneys 
are constructed shall be so proportioned that it will not be sub- 
jected to a stress greater than the maximum safe stress specified 
in this code for the material used. 

Only portland cement mortar, as defined in Section 44, shall 
be used in chimneys built of masonry units. 

No chimney shall rest upon a flooring of wood nor shall any 
wood be built within 2 inches of any chimney. 

The foundation of every chimney, flue or stack shall be de- 
signed and built in conformity with the requirements for foun- 
dations of buildings. 

In no case shall a chimney be corbeled out more than eight 
inches from a masonry wall, and in every such case the corbeling 
shall consist of at least five courses of masonry. 

The top of every chimney shall be at least five feet above the 
top of the building of which it is a part, if the roof is flat, or 
at least two feet above the ridge if the roof is pitched. 

Metallic Smoke Stacks. No metallic smoke stack shall pass 
through any non-fireproof floor, ceiling, or roof, unless encased 
or lined with brick, concrete or other fireproof material of the 
same character and thickness as prescribed for non-metallic 
chimneys; or in place thereof; where such metallic stack passes 
through the roof only, it shall be separated from the roof by a 
twelve inch air space. 


Wind Pressure. Every stack shall be designed to withstand a 
wind pressure of at least thirty pounds per square foot. In cir- 
cular stacks such pressure shall be assumed to act over not less 
than one-half of the diametrical area. 

Assume a stack 70 feet high and 30 inches in diameter; guys 
attached 20 feet below top of stack; slope of guys, 30 degrees 
with the horizontal (that is, guys reach the ground about 85 
feet from the stack). The guys should then be not less than 
one-half inch galvanized cables, or two sets of 3-inch cables 
could be used. Proper anchors must be provided which will de- 
velop the full strength of the cable. 


It is very important the guys be so arranged that they will 
not become weakened by chafing. If the guys are fastened to an 
eyebolt it should be protected by a steel shield which will take 
the wear. 

Section 35. Lights 


Oil lamps shall not be used when gas or electricity is available, 
except in private apartment and dwelling. 


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Gas and oil lights shall be placed at least six feet above the 
floor level, at least six inches from any combustible partition or 
wall, and at least two feet (measured from top of flame) below 
any combustible ceiling unless properly protected by a metal 
shield with at least two inches of air space above. Swinging 
brackets shall be provided with a guard or stop so that the light 
cannot come nearer to the partition or wall than one foot. In 
aisles and public passageways, every such light shall be protected 
by an incombustible guard unless the light is at least six feet 
- six inches above the floor. 


Every gas supply main shall have a service cock outside of the 
building, so placed and maintained that it can be shut off At any 
time without entering the building. 


Section 36. Electrical Work 


All electrical work shall conform to the Current National Elec- 
trical Code, dated 1918, copies of which may be obtained from 
the National Board of Fire Underwriters, 76 William Street, 
New York, or from the U. S. Bureau of Standards, Washington, 
D. G. 

All wiring for lighting and power purposes in schools, thea- 
tres, assembly halls, hotels, hospitals and public garages shall 
be placed in conduit; except that this requirement need not apply 
to wiring for lighting purposes in schools and assembly halls of 
frame construction. 

(See also Section 75, motion picture booths). 


Section 37. Special Hazards 


Laundry Drying Rooms. Every laundry drying room shall be 
of fireproof construction, with all interior openings protected by 
standard fire doors. 

No heating appliance burning fuel shall be used in any such 
room, : 

Dry-Cleaning Establishments. Every Dry-Cleaning establish- 
ment shall be of fireproof construction, and shall not be more 
than two stories in height. A building not more than one story 
in height shall be either a separate building, or a separate por- 
tion of a building, isolated by means of standard fire walls, all 
openings in which are protected by automatic standard fire doors 
where sills are not less than six inches above the floor. 

A building more than one story in height shall be occupied 
exclusively by the dry-cleaning establishment. 


The lowest floor of any building used for dry-cleaning shall be 
above grade and there shall be no basement or other open or 
air space below such floor line. All windows, doors or other 
openings within fifty feet of any other building shall be pro- 
tected by standard fire doors or standard windows. Doors in 
cutside walls shall have sills flush with floor level. 


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An efficient ventilating system shall be provided for all wash 
rooms and drying rooms in every dry-cleaning establishment. 
Unless an exhaust system with fan in continuous operation is 
installed, a gravity ventilating system with vent openings at 
floor and ceiling must be provided. 

Public Garages. A public garage is any building which ac- 
eommodates more than two automobiles, motorcycles, tractors 
or other motor driven vehicles designed to use volatile inflam- 
mable liquid for fuel or power, except that buildings in which 
such new motor vehicles which do not contain oil volatile in- 
flammable liquid or storage batteries are stored, need not be 
included in this classification. 

All public garages shall be of fireproof construction if more 
than one story in height. 

All floors of storage rooms, sales rooms, and repair shops in 
public garages shall be of fireproof construction. 


Where public garages are built in connection with buildings 
used for other purposes they shall be separated therefrom by 
means of standard fire wails, and unpierced fireproof floors and 
ceilings. 

All walls, or parts of walls of public garages nearer than five 
feet to any other building or boundary line between premises 
shall be unpierced; all walls, or parts of walls nearer than ten 
feet to any other building or boundary line between premises 
shall have all openings protected by means of standard fire win- 
dows and standard fire doors. 


Parapet walls shall be provided as described in Section 44. 


Section 38. _ Elevator Enclosures 


Elevator enclosures shall be designed and built in accordance 
with Section 19, under paragraph entitled “Standard Fireproof 
Enclosure or Partition.” Elevators shall have close fitting slid- 
ing fire doors. | 
Section 39. Toilet Rooms 


Approval by an “authorized agent” means approval by a 
plumbing inspector acting under the direction of the Building 
Commissioner. 


Toilet Rooms Required. Every place of employment and every 
public building hereafter constructed shall have adequate toilet 
rooms completely enclosed, and so arranged as to insure pri- 
vacy; except that where no dust prevails in foundries, rolling 
mills, blast furnaces, tanneries, and other similar buildings, par- 
titions enclosing toilets shall be at least seven feet high but 
need not be carried to the ceiling nor enclosed at the top, pro- 
vided such ceiling is at least fifteen feet high, and provided such 
toilets are located in rooms which females are not allowed to 
enter. 


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Toilet Rooms in Existing Buildings. Every existing building 
must be provided with toilet facilities equal to the facilities re- 
quired by this Code for new buildings of a similar kind. In- 
stallations to meet these requirements must be completed and 
in operation within five years from the date of approval of this 
Code. 

Toilet Rooms for the Two Sexes. Where the two sexes are 
accommodated, separate toilet rooms shall be provided, except— 

(1) In apartment houses and dwellings, 

(2) If approved in writing by the Building Commissioner 
or his authorized agents, in buildings accommodating not more 
than five persons of both sexes, provided the door of such toilet 
room is kept locked and the key is kept in a place accessible to 
all such persons. But whenever the number of such persons 
shall exceed five, separate toilet rooms shall be provided. 

Entrances to toilet rooms for the two sexes shall be properly 
separated, by screens or otherwise, and shall, whenever possible, 
be at least twenty feet apart. 

Sex Designated. Wherever women are employed or accommo- 
dated, each toilet room shall be distinctly marked with regard 
ia the sex which uses it, and no person shall be allowed to use 
a toilet room assigned to the other sex, except as provided in 
this section, under the heading “Toilet Rooms for the Two 
Sexes.” 


Location, Light, Ventilation. Every toilet or bathroom shall 
be so located as to open to outside light and air, by windows and 
skylights opening directly upon a street, alley, court, or vent 
shaft, except as hereinafter provided. Every such vent shaft 
shall have a horizontal area of at least one square foot for each 
water-closet or urinal adjacent thereto, but the least dimension 
of such shaft, if one story high, shall not be less than three feet; 
if two stories high, not less than four feet; and one foot addi- 
tional for each additional story. 

The glass area for a toilet room containing one closet or 
urinal shall be at least four square feet, with two square feet 
additional for each additional closet or urinal. 

In addition to the windows herein required, each toilet room 
which contains more than three fixtures (closets and urinals) 
shall have a vent flue of incombustible material, vertical or near- 
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type, or its equivalent, and the vent shall be not less than the 
following sizes: 


Four. Fixtures. = qo EES so ae 
Four or Six ‘Fixtures_< os ee ee 
Seven to-Ten*Mixtates® 222 2 eee 12 inch pipe 


But if the windows or skylights cannot be opened, then vent 
pipes shall be provided as specified in Section 39. 

No toilet room shall have a movable window or ventilator 
opening on any elevator shaft, or any court which contains win- 
dows of sleeping or living rooms above; except that a toilet 
room containing not more than two closets may have a movable 
window on such court, provided such room has a vent flue run- 
ning above the roof. 

Location Without Outside Windows. When Permitted. If a 
location with outside windows is impracticable, a different loca- 
tion will be permitted, as follows: 

(1) For a toilet used by not more than three persons— 
without special permit. 

(2) For a toilet in a new building, used by more than three 
persons—only with the written approval of the Building Com- 
missioner or his authorized agent. 

(3) For a new toilet in an existing building, used by more 
than three persons—only with the written approval of the 
Building Commissioner or his authorized agents. 

Such approval shall be granted only when a location with out- 
side windows is not reasonably possible. 


Where a toilet room without outside windows is permitted, it 
shall have a fixed window or windows to an adjoining room, with 
glass area as provided above, arranged so as to furnish as much 
light as possible. Frosted or other translucent glass shall be 
used when necessary for privacy. In no case shall the floor be 
ef wood. A vent flue of incombustible material shall be pro- 
vided, vertical or nearly so, running through the roof, with a 
cap or hood of the siphon type, or its equivalent, and the vent 
shall be not less than the following sizes: 


One. fixture. (closet or suritial)<=) = 4 eS 6 inch pipe 
Two, Tetures. 2 ee ee 2 J > ela hae 
Three -fixtorés #427) 2 BE: ____10 inch pipe 


Four?.or five fexturess 23 = ose ___12 inch pipe 
Six..or-: seven’ fixitres<..<-- Ed eee __14 inch pipe 
Night or ten fixturés(2< 1g) 2 ae 2 1G ieee 


Artificial Light. Every toilet room except in a private apart- 
ment) shall be artificially lighted during the entire period that 
the building is occupied wherever and whenever adequate nat- 
ural light is not available, so that all parts of the room are 
easily visible. 

Size. Every toilet room shall have at least ten square feet of 
floor area, and at least 100 cubic feet of air space, for each water 
closet and each urinal. 


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Floor. The floor and base of every toilet room shall be con- 
structed of material (other than wood) which does not readily 
absorb moisture and which can be easily cleaned; except that 
wood floors may be used. 


(1) In private apartments and dwelling houses. 

(2) If approved in writing, by the Building Commissioner 
or his authorized agents, in existing buildings where there is an 
existing wood floor in good condition and where such toilet will 
be used by not more than five persons, provided further that 
such room must have an outside window or skylight. 

Walls and Ceilings. The walls and ceilings of every toilet room 
shall be completely covered with smooth cement or gypsum 
plaster, glazed brick or tile, galvanized or enameled metal, or 
other smooth, non-absorbent material. Wood may be used if 
well covered with two coats of body paint and one coat of enamel 
paint or spar varnish. But wood shall not be used for parti- 
tions between toilet rooms, nor for partitions which separate a 
toilet room from any room used by the opposite sex. All such 
partitions shall be as nearly soundproof as possible. 

Walls and partitions shall be of light color to increase illumin- 
ation and facilitate cleaning. 

In large rooms a hose connection and a floor drain should be 
provided. 7 

Partitions Between Fixtures. Adjoining water closets shall 
be separated by partitions. Each individual urinal or urinal 
trough shall be provided with a partition at each end and at the 
back, to give privacy. Where individual urinals are arranged 
in batteries, a partition shall be placed at each end and at the 
back of the battery. A space of six to twelve inches shall be 
left between the floor and the bottom of each partition. The 
- top of the partition shall be from 514 to 6 feet above the floor. 
Doors, with the top 514 feet above the floor, and the bottom six 
inches above the floor, shall be provided for all water-closet com- 
partments. All partitions and doors shall be of material and 
finish required by Section 39 for wall and ceilings. 

Water-closet compartments shall be not less than 30 inches in 
width, and shall be sufficiently deep to permit the door to swing 
past the fixture when opened. Doors must swing inward. 

Recommendation: It is recommended that doors be equipped 
with spring or other device so that they will remain open when 
the compartment is vacant and will need to be latched to hold 
shut when the compartment is occupied. 

Fixtures. Only individual water closets of porcelain or vitre- 
ous chinaware shall be used. Watercloset seats shall be of wood 
or other non-heat-absorbing material, and shall be finished with 
varnish or other substance so as to be impervious to water. 

Urinals shall be made of material impervious to moisture, 


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and of such design, material, and construction that they may be 
properly flushed and kept in a sanitary condition. 

In all new installations in schools, theatres, hotels, office build- 
ings, mercantile buildings, libraries and museums, or similar 
public buildings, only individual urinals shall be used. Such in- 
dividual urinals shall be of porcelain or vitreous china, set into 
the floor, the floor graded toward the urinal, and shall be equip- 
ped with an effective automatic tank or valve or satisfactory 
foot operating flushing device. 


Protection from Frost. All water closets and urinals and the 
pipes connecting therewith shall be properly protected against 
frost, either by a suitable insulating covering, or by providing ~ 
and operating a suitable heating apparatus, or in some other 
approved manner; so that such water closets and urinals will 
be in proper condition for use at all times. : 


Where No Sewer System is Available. Each waier-closet and 
urinal and each lavatory or slop sink located in a toilet room, 
shall be connected with a sewer system, where a sewer system is 
available. In locations where a sewer system is not available, 
or cannot be made available, the disposal of human waste must 
be accomplished by means of individual septic tanks, the design 
and installation to be approved by the Building Commissioner. 

All Toilets, Cleanliness. Every toilet room and every part 
thereof, including walls, floors and ceiling, and all fixtures there- 
in, must be kept clean, efficient, and in good repair. In each 
toilet room sufficient toilet paper must be provided, and it must 
be made of material which will not obstruct the fixtures in such 
toilet room. 

Service Closet. Where practical, a service closet conforming 
with requirements for construction of toilet rooms shall be pro- 
vided and supplied with mop, broom, bucket, soap, toilet paper, 
and toweling necessary for sanitary upkeep of toilet rooms. 


Section 40. Protection For Window Cleaners 


In all buildings and places of employment every window above 
the first story or where the top of the window is more than 
twenty feet from the ground, except windows which are cleaned 
from within, must be provided with an efficient safety device to 

protect the window cleaner. Such safety device must consist of : 
| (a) <A safety belt must be provided for each window cleaner, 
which belt must be fastened at each end to a permanent attach- 
ment which must be bolted through the window frame and be 
secured by a nut and washer on the inside; or 


(b) A substantial, movable platform which is projected 
through the window for the window cleaner to stand upon and 
which is provided with a substantial.railing; or 


(c) Other equally efficient device. 
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Such details as are given in the following sections are typical 
not restrictive. The Building Commissioner will, on application, 
approve any other type of design which affords equal strength 
and security in accordance with standard practice. 


Section 41. Floor and Roof Loads 
The minimum stresses to be resisted by any structure shall be 
calculated by adding to the weight of the structure, called dead 
load, the following superimposed live loads uniformly distributed 
in pounds per square foot of horizontal area. 
Theatres, Assembly Halls and Other Places of Assemblage: 


Auditoriums with fixed seats...... pasNE ie Anh Osha eat he, ih aD 70 
Lobbies, passageways, stairways and auditoriums or places of 
assemblage without fixed seats_........2022000.... <2 aA eae BCE AB SR 100 
Dance halis 23.4). ME See. PRE ea ap Ri. Sao ae ee 100 
UPLCVSS BEES Wy NT Pa Oe eae ee ee Aa ot SR NaS A even ae te 150 
School Buildings, Libraries and Museums: 
Wiass-rooms and-rooms.for ‘similar use. 2.8 60 


Corridors, laboratories and similar public parts of the building S80 
Hotels, Dwellings, Apartment and Tenement Houses, Club Houses, 
Hospitals and places of Dentention: 


ed We PRP cb g Se SH mye 1TOLOD ince <2 i pet lt ile Nae Aah a ae Oa 40 
(aigeiie erases Satateng et ele Belg.) oe ie sabe Mint ee ee eemnee Lanes Maia 30 
Private rooms and apartments (other than dwellings)... 5O 
Public corridors, offices, lobbies, dining’ rooms, ete............--.....--.... SO 
Office Buildings: 
OTs CarlOWsi' ra) cade n, 5 SNS ad eee a a. cal hee top ail eee ee i ee 100 
Res a eees DOE (i bros re, cate ee ee ee ne ee ea 60 
COME TEED ED git ae oy Soa aoe Aarne Se TSE Ee Pe naeneea Oo ne ae ee ee ee 100 
COE SOS 5 demir ER 6 eT ie aR 271 Pa ge oe dee 100 
Workshops, factories and mercantile establishments..___.......-.....---.... 100 


(In warehouses, workshops, factories and mercantile estab- 
lishments used for the sale, storage or manufacture of heavy 
merchandise or machinery the floors shall be designed to carry 
all loads safely, including an allowance of at least 25 per cent 
for vibration where vibration occurs. ) 

EMG ag nO R ESL RL esta ii Od ee as 5c ok ee ee Re ped eto te sas res 30 

Sidewalks _.... cE ee 1 Ee Dek CSS Ses Pie eS ay: Lae 2 nS eC, eee eee J38 MSD 

(In any building where the maximum floor load is more than 
225 lbs. per square foot the sidewalk must be designed to carry 
safety such maximum load.) 


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Wind pressure, 25 Ibs. per square foot of exposed surface, ex- 
cept as modified in Section 42. 

The foregoing floor loads (but not the roof or sidewalk loads) 
may be decreased by 20 per cent in building of fireproof con- 
struction. 

Concentrated, partial, and accentric loading shall also be pro- 
vided for. 

The joists, beams, girders, columns, and walls supporting the 
roof shall be designed to carry the full loads. 

(a) Table of Joists for Dwellings. Minimum Size and 


Spacing: 
Span First Floor Second Floor 
S’0O” and not over 110” 2x S—16” O/ce 2x §—16” O/e 
11’1” and not over 16’0” 2x10—16” O/c 2x10—16” O/e 


161” and over to be approved by the Building Commissioner. 
The span, is the span of joists from center of bearings. 
All floor joists carrying partitions must be doubled. 
(b) Ceiling joists for dwellings. 
Ceiling joists shall be not less than 2x6—16" O/c. 
(c) Roof Rafters for Dwellings. ' 

Roof rafters where length is 12'0” or over shall be at 
least 2x6 24” O/ce. All shorter rafters shall be at least 2x4 
16” O/c. 

Floor girders and trusses over 30 feet long shall be designed 
ito carry not less than 85 per cent of the live load besides the 
dead load; except that in hotels, apartment and tenement houses, 
hospitals, club houses, and office buildings they shall be designed 
to carry not less than 75 per cent of the live load besides the 
dead load. 


In a factory, store, warehouse or similar commercial! building, 
the live load to be supported by walls, columns and foundations, 
Shall be assumed at not less than 85 per cent of the full live 
load of the top floor, 80 per cent of the next lower floors and 75 
per cent for each succeeding lower floor. 


In all other buildings the live loads to be supported by walls, 
columns, and foundations, shall be assumed at not less than 85 
per cent of the full live load of the top floor and 5 per cent less 
for each succeeding lower fioor until a ratio of 50 per cent is 
reached, which shall be used for all succeeding lower floors. 

No one shall do any cutting in, on any floor, ceiling or roof 
joists of any building. 


Section 42. Wind Pressure 


Except as modified in the last paragraph of this Section, every 
building shall be designed to resist a horizontal wind pressure 
of 25 pounds for every square foot of exposed surface, in addi- 
tion to the dead loads and the live loads specified above. 


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If the overturning moment due to wind pressure exceeds 75 
per cent of the moment of stability of the structure due to dead 
load only, the structure shall be anchored to its foundations, 
which shall be of sufficient weight to insure the stability of the 
structure; and sufficient diagonal bracing or rigid connections 
between uprights and horizontal members shall be provided to 
resist distortion. 

The overturning moment may be disregarded in a structure 
less than 100 feet in height if the height does not exceed twice 
the width. 7 

When the stress due to wind in any member is not greater 
than 50 per cent of the stress due to the dead and live loads, it 
may be neglected. When the wind stress is greater than 50 per 
cent of the dead and live load stresses, then the sum of all these 
stresses shall not exceed 150 per cent of the stresses hereinafter 
provided. . 

Section 43. Foundations 


The permissible loads on natural earth shall not be more than 
the following, in tons per square foot: 


Tons 

j . % Sq. Ft. 
Quick- sand and: alluvial, soils..2222 124 ee ee ee VY, 
Nott clayr sf 6 es he ee Sic, aces a eet 1 
Ordinary clay and sand together in layers, wet and spongy............ 2 
Clay or fine sand, firm, and-dry= 3 22 eee 3 
sand, compact and well cemented... —.22 550 2 oe 4 
Gravel and coarse sand, well packe@. 2.02) 3... 3. 2 ee 3) 
Hard: pan or shale... 0. 302s. 2 3. ae ae 6 


The maximum load on a timber pile shall not exceed 500 
pounds per square inch, and shall be determined by the follow- 
ing formula: 


2W k 
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S plus oO. 1 
2W H 
L————_———————_for drop hammer 
$s plus 1 


Ss 
in which formula 
L=safe load in pounds 
W=weight of hammer in pounds 
H=fall of hammer in feet 
S=penetration under last blow in inches, assumed to be sen- 
sible at an approximately uniform rate. 


Size of Foundation Walls for Dwellings When Not Over 
Four Feet Below Grade | 
One ‘story-howse (got tess: tha lt. ee ee S inch wall 
One and one-half or two story house not less than_...._.. 10 inch wall 
Section 44. Masonry Construction 
Masonry construction is that form of construction in which 
the material is laid up unit by unit and set in mortar. 


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Unit Stresses, The following unit compressive stresses (pounds 
per square inch) shall not be exceeded in masonry laid in port- 
land cement mortar: 


Lbs. 
S Sq. Ui 
Brick, standard common (crushing strength 1,800 Ibs. sq. in.).... 175 
Brick, hard or select (crushing strength 38,000 Ibs. sq. in.) ...-... 270 
Concrete Brick (crushing strength 1,500 Ibs. sq. in.) -..--....... 200 
Hollow Concrete Block or Tile or Hollow Clay Tile (on gross 
BLOOD) ce ree eee ee 90 
Solid: Concrete: Block:2225 25 3 se ee ee 150 
Rubblestone” Work: .1ac02 ee ee ee ee 150 
Cut Stone Masonry other than Sand-Stone...............21..--2.0020 ee 
Sand-Stone -Masonry® (42242.2:3 5 250) ee ee eee 300 


For any other type of masonry the unit stress shall be cal- 
culated on the basis of a factor of safety of 10 or more, in ac- 
cordance with standard practice. 

Mortar. Portland cement mortar used in laying up masonry 
shall be mixed in the proportion of one part of portland cement 
to not more than three parts of sand, by volume. Hydrated lime 
or lime putty may be added to an amount not exceeding 10 
per cent, by volume, of the portland cement used. 

Cement and lime mortar shall be mixed of one part of equal 
volumes of portland cement and lime to not more than 3 parts 
of sand. 


Lime mortar shall be mixed in the proportion of one part of 
jime to not more than 3 parts of sand. 

Whenever cement and lime mortar is used instead of portland 
cement mortar, the allowable working stresses on the masonry 
shall be reduced to 75 per cent of that allowed with portland 
cement mortar. 

Whenever lime mortar is used instead of portland cement 
mortar the maximum allowable working stress shall be reduced 
to 50 per cent of that specified for masonry laid up with. port- 
land cement mortar. 


Masonry Bearing Walls. For all non-fireproof buildings ex- 
cept office buildings and buildings of the dwelling, apartment 
house and hotel class, the outside, party, division and other 
bearing walls shall be not less than 12 inches thick in the upper 
two stories, increasing four inches in thickness for each two 
stories (or fraction) below, except as hereinafter provided; no 
such two-story height shall exceed 30 feet. But the first story 
side walls of a three-story building may be 12 inches thick if 
laid in portland cement mortar and if the second floor joists are 
supported by wall hangers. Any wall which is not more than 
50 feet long between cross walls may be reduced to the thickness 
specified for fireproof building. 

_ For all fireproof buildings, and for non-fireproof office build- 
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class, the outside party, division and other bearing walls shall 
be not less than twelve inches thick in the upper three stories, 
increasing four inches in thickness for each three stories, or 
fraction inereasing four inches in thickness for each three stor- 
ies (or fraction) below, except as hereinafter provided; no such 
three-story height shall exceed 45 feet. 

A building not more than three stories in height may have 8 
inch walls in the upper story, provided such story is not more 
than 10 feet high in the clear, and the roof span is not more than 
25 feet, and the wall is not more than 60 feet long between 
cross walls, offsets or pilasters. A building not more than one 
story in height may have 8 inch walls provided the clear story 
height is not more than 12 feet, the roof span is not more than 
25 feet, and distance between cross walls, offsets or pilasters is 
not more than 60 feet. 

Dwelling houses two stories high may have 8 inch masonry 
walls in both stories provided the masonry is laid up in portland 
cement mortar having a lime content of not more than 10 per 
cent of the volume of cement and provided further that the clear 
story heights are not more than 10 feet. 

All other one-story buildings shall have all bearing walls not 
less than 12 inches thick. 

Eight inch bearing partition walls may be 14 feet high in the 
clear, but not more than 40 feet long between pilasters or cross 
walls. But no 8 inch masonry wall shall serve as a party or fire 
wall, except in rows of dwellings. 7 

Every wall shall be bounded with header courses extending 
through the wall at intervals no greater than every sixth course. 

If any horizontal section of any bearing wall shows more than 
40 per cent reduction of area on account of flues, opening or 
recesses, the wall shall be proportionally increased in thickness. 

Masonry foundation walls shall be at least four inches thicker 
than the wall next above and not less than 12 inches thick ex- 
cept that one-story dwelling houses may have 8 inch .masonry 
foundation walls if laid in portland cement mortar, and if the 
clear story height of the building is not more than 10 feet. 

Curtain Panel Walls. Curtain panel walls of masonry sup- 
ported at every floor level shall be not less than 8 inches thick. 

Stone Walls. Stone walls shall be four inches thicker than re- 
quired for walls of brick and shall be similarly bonded, 


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Stone or Terra Cotta Facing. Stone facing not less than four 
inches thick, and architectural terra cotta which extends not 
less than four inches into the wall and which is filled solid with 
concrete or brick and mortar, may be considered as part of the 
required thickness of a wall if substantially bonded to the back- 
ing as required for brickwork. No such wall shall be less than 
12 inches thick. 

Double Masonry Walls. In all masonry bearing walls that 
are built double, the quantity of material shall be not less than 
two-thirds of the quantity required for solid walls, and the parts 
of the wall shall be connected with approved ties placed not more 
than 24 inches apart, both vertically and horizontally. 


Hollow Clay Tile. In buildings not over three stories and not 
more than 45 feet high, hollow clay tile may be used for outside 
walls and inside bearing walls, as well as for non-bearing par- 
titions. Such tile, except for non-bearing partitions, shall have 
an ultimate compressive strength of not less than 700 lbs. per 
square inch of gross area. In computing the gross area, no de- 
duction shall be made for hollow spaces. 

Each tile shall bear a permanent brand or mark identifying 
the manufacturer of the tile. A copy of said brand or mark 
shall be on file with the Building Commissioner. 

The hollow spaces in clay tile shall not exceed 55 per cent, 
except that in one-story buildings the hollow spaces may be 60 
per cent. The absorption shall not exceed 12 per cent of the 
weight of the tile in 48 hours. | 

Such walls shall be laid in portland cement mortar.’ The 
thickness of such walls shall be the same as required for brick 
walls, but no such wall shall be higher than 15 times its thick- 
ness. 

Brick facing may be considered as part of a hollow clay tile 
wall (or vice versa) if the two materials are properly bonded 
AM Deacon courses not farther apart than every sixth course of 
brick. | 


Concrete Block and Tile. Concrete block and tile masonry 
bearing walls and piers shall be approved by the Building Com- 
missioner or shall meet the following requirements: 

(a) Each block shall bear a permanent brand or mark iden- 
tifying the manufacturer of the block. A copy of said brand 
or mark shall be on file with the Building Commissioner. 


(b) Before approval of the product of any manufacturer, 
compression and absorption tests on samples selected by the 
Building Commissioner shall be made at the expense of the 
manufacturer at a laboratory of recognized standing. The ulti- 
mate compressive strength of hollow and two-piece units at 28 
days must average 700 pounds per square inch of the gross 
cross-sectional area of the unit as used in the wall.. The gross 
cross-sectional.area of hollow building units shall be considered 


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the product of the length by the width of the unit. The gross 
cross-sectional area of a two-piece concrete building unit shall 
be one-half the product of the length of the unit by the width 
of the wall for which the units are intended. 


(c) The ultimate compressive strength of solid concrete 
building units at 28 days must average not less than 1,200 
pounds per square inch of the cross sectional area of the unit 
tested as used in the wall. 

(d) The average amount of water absorbed in 48 hours by 
three units 28 days old shall not exceed 1214 pounds per cubic 
ft. of concrete (actual volume) contained in any block. 

(e) At least three samples of each unit tested for either 
compressive strength or absorption shall be selected so as to 
represent as nearly as practicable the average quality of the 
product of the manufacturer. 

(f) The product of any manufacturer which has been tested 
within the next proceeding six months may be accepted for use 
by the: Building Commissioner without being tested, but tests 
may be required at any time when in the opinion of the Building 
Commissioner the product does not meet with the requirements 
of this code. Rejected block may be used in non-bearing par- 
titions and in one-story structures outside the fire limits if spe- 
cifically approved by the Building Commissioner. 

(¢g) Brick facing may be considered as part of a concrete 
block or tile wall (or vice versa) if the two materials are prop- 
erly bonded with header courses not farther apart than every 
sixth course of brick. 

Parapet Walls: All exterior, division and part walls of non- 
fireproof buildings shall have parapet walls not less in thickness 
than the wall below, carried to 3 feet above the proof and capped 
with incombustible material; but this paragraph shall not apply 
to buildings where frame construction would be permitted; nor 
to walls of buildings where not less than 10 feet of vacant space 
is maintained between the wall and the boundary line between 
premises. 


Recesses. Recesses for water, sewer or other pipe shall not 
be deeper than one-third the thickness of the wall and the re- 
cesses around such pipes shall be filled with solid masonry for a 
space of one foot at the top and bottom of each story. 


Old Walls. Walls heretofore built as party walls but which 
are not in accordance with the requirements of this section may 
be used if in good condition provided the height of the same 
be not increased. 

In case it is desired to increase the height of an existing party 
or independent wall, which is less in thickness than required 
under this section, the same shall be done in one of the follow- 
ing ways: 


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(1) By lining of mason work, supported on a proper foun- 
dation and forming a combined thickness with the old wall of 
not less than 4 inches more than the thickness; required for a 
new wall; no lining shall be less than 8 inches in thickness; no 
lining shall be laid up in cement mortar, and thoroughly an- 
chored to the old wall with suitable anchors, placed not over 
2 feet apart, the old wall being first cleaned of plaster or other 
coating; or | 

(2) Such old wall may be increased in height if the new 
live and dead loads are uniformly distributed over the entire 
old wall by means of a distributing girder and if the total load 
does not exceed the allowable unit stresses; or 

(83) The new wall may be carried by steel or concrete 
columns. 


Section 45. Concrete Construction 


Unit Stresses and Reinforcement. The following unit work- 
ing stresses in pound per square inch shall not be exceeded in 
concrete having an ultimate crushing strength of 2,000 pounds 
per square inch. 


Leelee rUCity | Ae lade. Pate d CO SLOT <.n02-. cS. ch ecpci lice a euscce. 2-0 2s 16,000 
Steel, Intermediate Grade, in Tension............... = A GPR: eb lee 18.090 
Becele Piet eCaroon, tr Lensioun. 2/8 ee Poa ea nh cal 18.000 
Perm OE TMUVIT  StOCls VV EEC! gees tre) ee Se, he 18,000 
Steel to resist Diagonal Tensile Stress__.......000002020200.00022...0.222.. 12,000 
Direct compression on plain concrete piers...................0..0-......- 500 
Direct compression on columns, in concrete alone_......... aektew 5OO 


Compression in vertical reinforcement in columns: Modulus 
ratio “n” times stress in concrete. 

(For computation, steel in spirals of hooped columns may be 
considered as vertical steel equal to two and one-half times the 
volume of the spiral steel.) 


IXxtreme fibre stress (in bending) in concrete in compression —. 650 
Kixtreme fibre stress in concrete adjacent to supports in con- 
OVE ED PTE TE SEP gene See ORL i ee, ee een an oe TOO 
STS UMS dig crete been s PELE S 6 MM 6 178 gle ke eae no Ps ee ee ie EE A RS Es, SO 
a Opa ct CNS NESS a Cay LOT SN Legh Lh o> ae eRe aio Loki, 100 
Shearing stress in concrete alone (on the section bjd)-......-...-...... 40 


Maximum shearing stress where web steel is adequately 
“FifS iilgo tare <3 8. Wey ee cere ey. tc) See ee Ae 2 2 ere ek oe oes oe 120 

Where constant inspection of construction is maintained un- 
der the supervision of the architect or structural engineer re- 
sponsible for the structural design, or by some other person ac- 
ceptable to the Building Commissioner, and where the consis- 
tency of the concrete is regulated by “Slump Tests” and the 
compressive strength of the concrete is checked by frequent 
tests on cylinders as the work proceeds, the maximum shearing 
stress in concrete testing 2,000 pounds per square inch or more 
at the age of 28 days may be 240 pounds per square inch in 
members having both the web steel and the longtitudinal steel 
anchored mechanically or by means of hooks. 


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Punching shear in concrete where the depth to reinforcing 
steel is less than one-fifteenth of the span in beams and slabs, 
or less than one-third of the overhang of cantilevers and foot- 
ings may be 120. 

Where the depth is greater than these limits the punching 
shear may be 200. 

Vertical shear on periphery of drop panel of flat-slab floor, 
measured on depth jd 60. 


The concrete used for reinforced concrete construction shall 
develop an average crushing strength of not less than 2,000 
pounds per square inch in tests of at least five cylinders 6 inches 
in diameter and twelve inches high, 28 days after mixing. The 
samples must be of the same material consistency and propor- 
tions as that used on the work. They shall be taken from the 
regular batches of concrete and shall be made and stored in 
accordance with the Standard Method of Making and Storing 
Specimens of Concrete in the Field, adopted in 1921 by the 
American Society of Testing Materials, and tested in a labora- 
tory of recognized standing. The laboratory shall furnish the 
Building Commissioner with a copy of the results of the tests. 


Concrete mixtures which develop an average crushing 
strength greater than 2,000 pounds per square inch 28 days 
after mixing, shall be allowed a proportional increase in unit 
working stresses in the concrete and in the bond between con- 
crete and steel. If the average strength is less than 2,000 pounds 
per square inch a proportional reduction in allowable stresses 
must be made and the allowable load on the structure must be 
reduced accordingly. In the absence of definite knowledge in 
advance of construction, the average crushing strength may be 
assumed as 2,000 pounds per square inch for concrete having 
one part of cement to six parts of the combined aggregates (the 
two classes of aggregates being measured separately) 2,500 
pounds per square inch for one part of cement to four and a 
half parts of aggregates, and 3,000 pounds per square inch for 
one part of cement to three parts of aggregates. | 

Reinforced Concrete Columns. Reinforced concrete columns 
having an unsupported length greater than 15 times the least 
side or diameter of the column shall not be stressed to an amount 
greater than the quantity 


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4 L 


e 45D 

multiplied by the allowable stress specified elsewhere in this sec- 
tion. In this formula ‘“D” is the least side or diameter of the 
column, and “L” is its unsupported length, both expressed in 
inches.’ 


For columns subject to eccentric loading or bending the com- 
bined bending and direct stress on the extreme fibre of the gross 
column section shall not exceed the extreme fibre stress in con- 
crete in compression as specified in this section. 

Steel and Cast Iron Columns Encased in Concrete. In steel 
columns filled with concrete and encased in a shell of concrete at 
least three inches thick, where the steel is designated to carry 
the entire load, the allowable stress in lb. per. sq. in. may be 


L 
18,000—70—, where “L” 
R 


is the unsupported length of the column, in inches and “R”’ is 
the least radius of gyration of the steel section, in inches. In 
no case shall the stress exceed 16,000 lb. per sq. in. The con- 
crete shell shall be reinforced with wire mesh or hooping weigh- 
ing at least 0.2 lb. per sq. ft. of surface of shell. 


When the details of the structural steel are such as fully to 
enclose or encase the concrete, or if spiral steel is provided equal 
to one-half of one per cent of the core area and having a pitch 
not more than 3 inches, the concrete inside the column core or 
spiral may be loaded to the amount specified in this section for 
reinforced concrete columns. In addition, the structural steel 
may be loaded as specified in the preceding paragraph. 

Composite columns having a cast iron core or center surround- 
ed by concrete which is enclosed in a spiral of not less than one- 
half of one per cent of the core area, and with a pitch of not 
more than three inches, may be figured for a stress of 


L 
12,000—60—, but not more than 10,000 
R 


pounds per square inch on the cast iron section. The concrete 
within the spiral or core may be loaded to the amount specified 
in this section for reinforced concrete columns. The diameter 
of the cast iron core shall not exceed one-half the diameter of 
the spiral. 

If the unsupported length of columns exceeds fifteen times the 
least outside dimension, the stress in the concrete shall be re- 
duced as required elsewhere in this section for reinforced con- 
crete columns. 


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In all columns positive connections shall be provided to trans- 
mit to the column steel the loads of all rod-reinforced beams and 
girders framed into the columns. 

Protection of Reinforcing Steel. Reinforcing Steel shall be 
protected by a minimum of two inches of concrete on girders 
and columns, 114 inches on beams, and one inch on floor slabs. 

Standard Practice. Features of design and construction not 
covered by this code shall be governed by the rules and principles 
of standard practice, as published in the Final Report of the 
Joint Committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, dated 
July 1, 1916. 

Materials and Supervision. Steel for reinforcement shall con- 
form to the “Standard Specifications” for concrete reinforce- 
ment adopted by the American Society for Testing Materials. 


Portland cement shall conform to the Standard Specifications 
and Tests for Portland Cement adopted by the American Society 
for Testing Materials (serial designation C-9-21) effective Jan- 
vary), L921 


Fine aggregate shall consist of sand, stone screenings or other 
inert materials with similar characteristics, or a combination 
thereof, having clean, hard, strong, durable, uncoated grains 
and free from injurious amounts of dust lumps, soft or flaky 
particles, shale, alkali, organic matter, loam or other deleterious 
substances. 


Coarse aggregate shall consist of crushed stone, gravel, 
crushed air-cooled blast furnace slag, or other approved inert 
materials with similar characteristics, or combinations thereof, 
having clean, hard, strong, durable uncoated particles free from 
injurious amounts of soft, friable, thin, elongated or laminated 
pieces, alkali, organic or other deleterious matter. 

Crusher-run stone, bank run gravel or mixtures of fine and 
coarse aggregate prepared before delivery shall not be used 
without being re-screened and graded. 

Water for concrete and mortar shall be free from oil, acid, al- 
kali, organic matter, or other deleterious substances. 

The supervision required by Section 26 includes in the case 
of concrete structures, a close personal supervision by an ex- 
perienced superintendent or inspector of the placing of rein- 
forcement, mixing and placing of concrete, and removal of false- 
work or forms. Especially close supervision is necessary when 
the temperature falls below 40 degrees F. 

Concrete Walls. Plain concrete walls of 1:2 1-2:5 mix or bet- 
ter may be built four-fifths of the thickness of masonry walls in 
Section 44. Walls of 1:2:4 mix or better may be built two-thirds 
of the thickness required for masonry walls, but the thickness 
of basement walls shall be not less than the wall immediately 
above, and not less than 8 inches. 


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Walls of reinforced concrete may be of less thickness then 
required for plain concrete walls if properly reinforced in ac- 
cordance with the requirements specified in this section for re- 
inforced concrete. If such a wall serves as a required division 
or fire wall, or as the outside wall of a building required to be 
of fireproof or mill construction, such wall shall be of 1:2 1-2:5 
mix or better, not less than six inches thick, and reinforced with 
steel weighing not less than 14 pound per square foot properly 
distributed. Such thickness and reinforcement shall be increas- 
ed where necessary in accordance with standard practice. 

Reinforced concrete curtain walls supported at every floor 
level shall be not less than four inches thick. 


The separate sections of double or triple concrete walls shall 
have a combined thickness not less than the thickness required 
for single concrete walls, but no section shall be less than four 
inches thick. The sections shall be tied together with 3£-inch 
round or square galvanized or tar-coated rods, with 2 inch hooks 


at each end, the rods to be spaced not more than 18 inches hori- 
zontally and vertically. 


(For concrete walls in dwelling house construction, see Sec- 
tion 107). 


Section 46. Steel and Iron Construction 


The following unit stresses (pounds per square inch) shall 
not be exceeded: 


emo. ones section. rolled steel_..: 22.2 . 16,000 
Direct compression, rolled steel and steel castings.............-.. 16,000 
Bending, on extreme fibres of rolled shapes, built sections, 
. girders and steel castings.............. ehh ere | Se ee toe, - 16,000 
Seen. Ox LPCIMeanOERS OF splNS. 28... -..-- dt Al 24,000 
Pepto Las STiaeeL VERS AERIS... dee So ee lol See = 12,000 
pera ie 0 PORES ELTAUD TIGNES oS VCER ooo cee eee nant reenesennteen 10,000 
Shear (average) on webs of plate girders and rolled beams, 
Hn Se ermB x Soo 0S BU ats A iy lr es eth ee ee 10,000 
Bearing pressure on shop 1 FW eee, ETC ST Bites z. Se eel cee ei... 24,000 
Sean Tin omnes Olt. nce ie Wer LVets...:...ee (2 Bee ge oat 20,000 


Pressure in pounds per lineal inch on expansion rollers shal! 
not exceed 600 times the diameter of rollers in inches. 


Axial compression on gross sections of rolled steel or shop 
riveted columns for ratio of L-B up to 120 may be 19,000— 
100xL-R with a maximum of 13,000 where L equals effective 
length of member in inches, R equals corresponding radius of 

gyration of section in inches. 


Every steel or iron structure shall be designed in accordance 
with this code and with the rules and principles of standard 
practice. 


All steel and iron shall conform to the standard specifications 
of the American Society for Testing Materials in force October 
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Section 47. 

Trans- 
Tension Compression verse Shear 
Ex- With 
With Across .With Across treme Grain 

grain grain grain grain fibre 
MUTE Ler OH hee. ee 1,200 125 1,100 500 1,500 150 
Nye LES Die set eo ts ee 700 50 900 200 1,000 SO 
Long leaf yellow pine....1,200 60 1,500 Sods: gel. 600 150 
Short leaf yellow pine....1,000 5O 1,100 300 1,400 100 
BASEN Le 11 Ie pei ace ae 1,000 5O 1,300 ooo 1,600 110 
INO WaAly Pines. 21a SOO 50 1,000 250 1,200 100 
Kastern spruce and fir... S800 5O S00 200 1,000 80 
PeTNOCK” Be te ee. 600 900 200 1,100 . 80 


Stud Partitions. Studs in a bearing wall shall not be less than 
15x35 inches, with the 35% inch dimension at right angles 
with the plane of the wall. Wooden stud partitions and walls 
shall be capped with a two-inch plate below the floor joists; or | 
if the studs run through pieces of studding shall be fitted in be- 
tween so as to form a fire stop. No lath shall extend through 
from room to room. 

(For “‘semi-fireproof” stud partitions see Section 19). 


Furring for Walls. When walls are furred, unless the wall be- 
tween joists is built out to face of lath, there shall be a continu- 
ous horizontal strip placed close to the joists at top and bottom; 
and before the lathing is done, the wall shall be plastered with 
a coat of mortar at least six inches wide and of the full thick- 
ness of the strip, just above or below each horizontal strip. 
Wooden lath or furring shall not be used in any building of 
fireproof or mill construction. 


Floor and Roof Beams. The ends of all wooden floor or roof 
beams or joists which rest on a masonry wall shall enter the 
wall to the depth of 4 inches, unless wall hangers are used, or 
unless the wall is properly corbeled out four inches, in which 
case the corbeling shall extend to top of joists. 


Walls shall be anchored to the floor and roof construction with 
iron or steel wall anchors placed not more than 8 feet apart. 


The ends of all such beams or joists shall be so shaped or ar- 
ranged that in case of any deflection, or breaking, they may fall 
out without doing much injury to the brick wall. All joists 
entering any brick or stone wall shall be splayed approximately 
three inches shorter at top edge.. 


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No wooden beam or other timber shall be built into a party 
wall nearer than two inches to the center of the wall. 


. PART V 
Factories, Office and Mercantile Buildings 


The requirements of the following sections apply to buildings 
of this classification only. 
For other general requirements see Parts I to IV. 


Section 48. Classification 


This classification includes all factories and workshops (in- 
cluding all places where manual labor is employed), office build- 
ings, telegraph and telephone offices, mercantile establishments 
where commodities are bought and sold, warehouses, railroad 
stations, exhibition buildings, and places where less than 100 
persons assemble for entertainment, worship, or dining pur- 
poses. 

Section 49. Exits 


Number and Location. Every building and every story there- 
of shall have at least two exits, with the following exceptions: 

(1) First and second story storage rooms not over 3,000 
square feet in area; 

(2) The second story of a two story building, provided such 
' story is used only for offices; is not over 3000 square feet in 
area; and has a stairway enclosed with fireproof or semi-fire- 
proof partitions, leading directly to the outside and not leading 
to the basement. 

Additional exits shall be provided, if necessary, so that no 
part of the building will be more than 75 feet distant from an 
exit, measuring along public passageways and aisles; but such 
distance may be increased to 100 feet in the following buildings, 
provided no hazardous condition exists therein: 


(1) Fireproof building whose contents are entirely or al- 
most entirely incombustible; 

(2) Fireproof office buildings; 

(3) Fireproof storage warehouses with fireproof individual 
compartments; 

(4) Buildings having an approved automatic sprinkler sys- 
tem, provided the contents are not especially inflammable. 

Eixits shall be so located as to afford the best possible egress. 

Type of Exits. At least one-half of the exits above required 
shall be stairways (See Section 20.) The other exits shall be 
either stairways, or horizontal exits (Section 21), or fire escape 
(Section 22.) But no fire escape shall be accepted as an exit 
from any floor which is more than 60 feet above the grade at 
the point where such fire escape is located, except that such 


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- height may be increased to 90 feet in the case of fireproof office - 
buildings or fireproof buildings where such floors are used for 
storage only. In a two story building, an outside wooden stair- 
way may be used as an exit. 

Every building which accommodates more than 50 persons 
above the second floor shall have at least two exits other than 
fire escapes, except fireproof office buildings and other fireproof 
buildings whose contents are entirely or almost entirely incom- 
bustible, provided such building does not exceed 7000 square feet 
in floor area at the third floor. 


Type of Building 
Stairways to be enclosed if building ex- 
ceeds number of stories 
Non-fire- Hither fire- eee 
proof, not proof or nd 


ree GAC re Sprinklered Sprinklered Speinidans 
Office Buildings; other buildings whose 


contents are practically incombustible 8 -} 3) 
All other factories, stores, and other busi- 
NESS DULL GIN OS > eae ee ee ee AN ee 3 4 


Enclosure of Stairways. In all buildings having a greater 
number of stories than the number given in the table at the 
top of this page, all stairways shall be enclosed as specified in 
Section 20. 

Exceptions. (1) A three-story mercantile building having at 
least two stairways may have one stairway unenclosed provided 
such stairway does not lead to the basement. 


(2) A fireproof building having at least two stairways may 
have one stairway unenclosed from the first to the third (or 
second) floor, provided such stairway is enclosed in the third 
(or second) story and does not lead to the basement. 


(8) Stairways must be enclosed in all buildings of more 
than two stories where inflammable material or any other 
especially hazardous condition is present. 


A fire escape shall be provided on every building of more than 
two stories which does not have at least two enclosed stairways, 
or one enclosed stairway and a horizontal exit. 


One enclosed stairway may serve as an exit for two dione 
of a building if each division has a door opening directly into 
the stairway enclosure; provided each division shall have at 
least two means of reaching the ground, either directly or in- 
directly. 

Total Width. In a building not provided with horizontal 
exits, the total width of stairways shall be not less than the 
following: 

In ordinary or frame buildings, 60 inches per 100 persons; if 
sprinklered, 40 inches per 100 persons. 

In fireproof and mill buildings, as indicated in the table at 
the bottom of this page. 


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Standard fire escapes (Section 22) may be substituted for 
stairways to the extent of not more than one-third of the re- 
quired total width subject to the provisions of this section, under 
the heading “Type of Exits.” 

If horizontal exits (Section 21) are provided for any floor, 
the number of persons accommodated on such floor may be in- 
creased at the rate of 100 persons for each 40 inches width of 
such exits, provided such increase shall not exceed 100 per cent 
of the number of persons accommodated by the stairways. 

Example. As examples of calculations under this section where 
the same number of persons are to be accommodated on each 
floor, the following table shows the number accommodated by 
two stairways of minimum width (each 44 inches wide) : 

Frame and ordinary buildings, 147 persons total, above first 
story; if sprinklered, 220 persons. 

Fireproof and mill buildings, as indicated in the table fol- 
lowing: 

Type of Building 


Fireproof, Fireproof, not Mill Mill, not 
sprinklered sprinklered sprinklered sprinklered 
Inches per 
100 30 5O 40 60 
persons on In. per 100 
2nd floor persons on :— 
[AN Rca Reem 15 25 20 30 ord floor 
like a ee nes 2 ies 20 16 24 4th floor 
Dina oe ak | 9 15 jd 18 5th floor 
Diismee. 2s. 6 10 § 12 6th floor 
|b Ce Teen ae a Se 3 5 4 6 7th floor 
PstI eh Sep. os 0 0 0 0 Sth floor 
but in no case shall such. total widths be less than and above 
30 50 40 60 In. per 100 
persons on any one floor 
Type of Building 
Height of Fireproof, Tireproof, not Mill Mill, not 
$uilding sprinklered sprinklered sprinklered = sprinklered 
2 stories 293 175 220 147 persons 
: on each floor 
3 stories 195 14 ¢ 147 98 persons 
on each floor 
4 stories 154 92 116 vi .persons 
on each floor 
5 stories 133 SO- 100 67 persons 
on each floor 
6 stories 122 (33 92 61 persons 
on each floor 
More than 6 persons 
stories Pie 70 on eacb. floor 


Where the minimum stairway and one “A”’ fire escape are pro- 
vided take 34, of the above numbers; subject to the limitations 
of Section 49. 

Capacity of Buildings: In calculating the aggregate widths 
of exits, the capacity of a building shall be established as 
follows: . 


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In wholesale mercantile establishments and warehouses, by the 
number of persons employed therein plus an equal number of 
customers. ? 

In dining rooms, cafes, and lunchrooms, by allowing 15 square 
feet of floor per person. (If the room accommodates more than 
100 persons see Section 58). 

In retail mercantile establishments and exhibition halls, the . 
eapacity shall be determined by the architect or owner and no 
greater number of persons shall be permitted therein; but such 
number shall in no case be less than one person per 60 square 
feet of gross floor area excluding elevators and stairways. 

In all other buildings, the capacity shall be determined by the 
actual numbers of persons likely to be engaged therein and no 
greater number of persons shall be permitted therein. (See 
Section 57). 

Exit Doors. Every door which serves as an exit from a room 
accommodating more than ten persons (as well as doors which 
are exits from public passageways or stairways) shall be a 
standard exit door as defined in Section 23 except that such exit 
door need not swing outward if it accommodates less than 25 
persons and is not located at the foot of a stairway, and is not 
more than four risers above the outside grade. Over every 
emergency exit door, and over every exit door where other doors 
or openings may cause confusion, a sign shall be placed bearing 
the word “Exit” or “Out” in plain letters at least five inches 
high. (For red lights see Section 23). 

Passageways. Every public passageway, fire escape or aisle 
leading to or from a stairway, fire escape, or exit door, shall con- 
form in width to the rule for width of stairways specified in this 
section. The required width shall be kept clear and unobstructed 
at all times. Where loose chairs or seats would be likely to cause 
confusion or obstruction, such chairs or seats must be fastened. 


Section 50. Scuttle 


Every building or section of a building two stories or more in 
height shall have a permanent means of access to the roof from 
the inside. The opening shall be not less than 20x30 inches and 
there shall be a permanent ladder or stairway leading thereto. 


Section 51. Elevator Enclosures : 
Elevator enclosures shall be designed and built in accordance 
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with Section 19, under paragraph entitled “Standard Fireproof 
Enclosures or Partition.” 


Section 52. Trap Doors and Floor Openings 

Every opening through any floor shall be guarded by a sub- 
stantial enclosure or rail at least three feet high. Floor open- 
ings in buildings of more than two stories, unless enclosed with 
standard fireproof enclosures, shall be protected by standard 
fire doors, except that two stories may be connected by openings 
without fire doors if their combined floor area does not exceed 
the permissible floor area according to Section 28. 


Section 53. Lighting 

All passageways and stairways when used at night shall have 
lights at the head and foot of each flight of stairs, and at the 
intersections of all corridors and passageways. Where “B” 
fire escapes are required, such fire escapes shall be lighted 
whenever the stairways are required to be lighted. (For red 
exit lights see Section 23). 

All gas jets or gas lights in factories or workshops where 
combustible material is used shall be properly enclosed by globes 
or wire cages, or otherwise properly guarded. (See also Sec- 
tions 35 and 36). 


Section 54. Toilet Rooms, Lavatories and Dressing Rooms 

Number of Closets and Urinals. In every place of employ- 
ment, whether heretofore or hereafter constructed, one water- 
closet shall be provided for every 20 persons, or fraction thereof, 
of either sex. 

In addition thereto, where more than 10 males are employed, 
one urinal shall be provided for every 40 males, or fraction. 
Where not more than 10 males are employed, either a urinal 
shall be provided or the water closet shall have a projecting lip 
and self rising seat. Where trough urinals are used, each two 
feet of trough shall constitute one urinal. 

(Also see Section 39). 

Toilet Room, Lavatories. Adequate washing facilities shall be 
provided in or near every toilet room. In new installations 
there shall be at least one lavatory for every five fixtures (closets 
and urinals) or fraction. 


Shop Lavatories. Adequate washing facilities shall be pro- 
vided (1) in all industries where lead, arsenic, or other poison- 
ous or injurious materials are handled by the employes, and (2) 
in industries where food is prepared or manufactured, and (3) 
in glue factories, foundries, machine shops and other industries 
where the employes’ hands become dirty or greasy. In new in- 
stallations there shall be at least one lavatory for every ten em- 
ployes, or fraction, and hot water shall be provided. Basins or 
troughs for common use are prohibited. 


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All lavatories must be made of porcelain, enameled iron, or 
other impervious material. 

Drinking Water. Each place of employment must be supplied 
with sufficient pure drinking water and the faucets or outlets 
for same must be placed convenient to the employes. Common 
drinking cups are prohibited. Sanitary drinking fountains must 
be installed or individual cups must be provided by the employer. 

Dressing Rooms. Dressing rooms shall be provided where 
women are employed in factories, stores, laundries, restaurants, 
and telephone, telegraph, express and railroad offices. Every 
dressing room shall be properly lighted, ventilated, and heated. 

Section 55. Standpipes, Fire Extinguishers and Sprinklers 

Standpipes and Extinguishers. (For exterior standpipes see 
Section 22). 

Standard interior standpipes (Section 25) shall be provided in 
all buildings of more than two stories and more than 3000 square 
feet undivided floor area, where inflammable material or any 
other hazardous condition is present, unless an approved auto- 
matic sprinkler system is provided. The hose shall be long 
enough to reach to all parts of the building but no longer than 
100 feet. 7 

Wherever water supply of sufficient pressure is not available, 
two standard fire extinguishers (Section 25) shall be provided 
on each floor in place of each required interior standpipe. 

Automatic Sprinklers. A complete automatic sprinkler sys- 
tem (Section 25) shall be provided in every building of this 
classification (except office buildings not used for mercantile 
purposes) where more than 50 persons are employed or accom- 
modated above the third story except as provided below. 

In every such building where more than 50 persons are ac- 
commodated above the second story, an automatic sprinkler 
system shall be provided in the basement and sub-basements. 

An office building in which one or more of the lower floors is 
used for mercantile purposes, shall be classed as a merchants 
building, except that no sprinklers will be required in such por- 
tions of the building as are used for offices only. 

No sprinklers will be required in building of fireproof con- 
struction whose contents are not readily combustible. 


Section 56. Fire Alarm 


An approved fire alarm system shall be provided in every fac- 
tory or workshop where more than 10 persons are employed 
above the second story, except buildings which are provided 
with a complete automatic sprinkler system, and except fireproof 
buildings whose contents are practically incombustible. 


Section 57. Notice of Loads and Persons Accommodated 


Floor Loads. In every factory, workshop, warehouse, or other 
building where material is piled, notices of a permanent char- 


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acter shall be painted or otherwise prominently displayed, 
stating the live load (pounds per square foot) which the floor 
is designed to carry. Such notices shall be placed in full view, 
on each floor. | 

Number of Persons. In all buildings of this classification 
where 50 or more persons are accommodated on any floor above 
the second, notices shall be prominently displayed stating the 
maximum number of persons on each floor for whom stairways 
and other exits have been provided according to Section 49. 
Such notices shall be placed in full view, on each floor. 


PART VI 
Theatres and Assembly Halls 


The requirements of the following sections apply to buildings 
of this classification only. 

For other general requirements see Parts I to IV. 

For assembly halls in schools, see also Section 82. 


Section 58. Classification 


Theatres. This classification includes all buildings or parts of 
buildings used for theatrical, operatic, or motion picture per- 
formances of a public nature, except as provided in this Section. 

Assembly Halls. This classification includes all buildings or 
parts of buildings not included under “theatres,’”’ where 100 or 
more persons assemble for entertainment, instruction, worship 
or dining purposes. 

A private assembly hall is one built in connection with a 
school, club, church, or society building, and used only for private 
gatherings, and not rented for public use. Every other assembly 
hall is a public assembly hall. 

Occasional private motion picture performances (not more 
than two in any week) may be given in a private assembly hall, 
but in all such cases a fireproof booth must be provided accord- 
ing to Section 75. 

Occasional private theatrical or operatic performances (not 
more than two in any week) may be given in a private assembly 
hall; but in all such cases the stage must, be protected as in Sec- 
tions, 67,68 and 73. 

Occasional motion picture or theatrical performances may be 
given in a public assembly hall which is located on the first 
floor and accommodates not over 300 persons. In all such cases 
-a fireproof booth must be provided and the stage must be pro- 
tected as in Sections 67,68, 73 and 75. No place of assemblage 
shall be located over any such assembly hall. 


Section 59. Height and Class of Construction 


_Theatres, The main entrance or entrances shall not be at a 
higher level than three steps of six inches each, above the side- 


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walk at that point. The floor level at the highest row of seats, 
on the main floor, shall not be more than six feet above the side- 
walk level at the main entrance; and the floor level at the lowest 
row of seats, on said floor, shall not be more than six feet below 
- the level of the adjoining sidewalk. 

Theatres which accommodate not more than 400 persons shall 
be of ordinary construction or better. 

Theatres which accommodate more than 500 persons shall be 
of fireproof construction; except the stage floor which shall be of 
fireproof or mill construction (steel beams need not be fire- 
proofed) ; and except the roof, which may be of wood but must 
have an incombustible roof covering. If the theatre accommo- 
dates more than 1,000 persons, the roof shall be incombustible 
throughout. 

Balconies and Galleries shall be of Fireproof Construction. No 
balconies or galleries will be permitted in theatres which accom- 
modate 500 persons or less unless the buildings are built as spe- 
cified above for theatres accommodating more than 500 persons. 

Assembly Halls. Assembly halls which accommodate more 
than 1,000 persons shall be of fireproof construction. Balconies 
and galleries shall be of fireproof construction. Assembly halls 
which accommodate not more than 1,000 persons shall be of 
ordinary construction or better except as follows: 

Assembly halls accommodating not more than 750 persons 
may be built of frame construction provided the following con- 
ditions are complied with: 

(1) The entire building shall be not more than one story 
high nor more than 6,000 square feet in area. 

(2) The foundation walls and piers shall be of incombustible 
construction. : 

(3) The building shall be at least 10 feet away from any 
other building or adjoining lot line. 

(4) The balcony shall not accommodate more than 100 per- 
Sons and the balcony stairway shall lead directly to an outside 

oor. 

Every assembly hall accommodating more than 750 persons 
shall have the highest point of the main auditorium floor not 
more than 8 feet above, and in no case below, the grade line at 
the main entrance; except that in 4 building of fireproof con- 
_ struction, the highest point of such auditorium floor shall be 
not more than 15 feet above such grade. 


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An assembly hall accommodating not more than 750 persons 
and with not more than one balcony, may be placed in the second 
story of a building of fireproof construction provided the highest 
point of the main auditorium floor is not more than 22 feet above 
the grade at the main entrance of the building. 

An assembly hall accommodating not more than 400 persons 
and with not more than one balcony, may be placed in the third 
story of a building of fireproof construction, provided the high- 
est point of the main auditorium floor is not more than 35 feet 
above the grade at the main entrance to the building. 


In a building which accommodates not more than 1,000 per- 
sons the ceiling and the roof may be of combustible material, but 
the roof covering must be incombustible. 

An assembly hall accommodating not more than 400 persons 
and having no balcony or gallery may be placed on the second 
floor of a building of ordinary or mill construction, provided the 
highest point of the floor is not more than 22 feet above the 
grade at the main entrance of the building. 

An assembly hall accommodating not more than 200 persons 
and having no balcony or gallery may be placed in the third 
story of a building of ordinary or mill construction, provided the 
floor level is not more than 35 feet above the grade at the main 
entrance of the building; or may be placed in any story of a 
building of fireproof construction. (See also Section 82). 

In the case of a private assembly hall, each of the above num- 
bers of persons may be increased 25 per cent. 


Section 60. Exposure and Courts 


The walls containing the main entrance to any theatre or pub- 
lic assembly hall shall abut on a street. The lobby or passage- 
way leading from the main entrance to the main auditorium 
door shall be not longer than 50 feet nor longer than three times 
its width, unless it is enclosed with unpierced fireproof ceiling 
and floor and with an unpierced standard fire wall on each side, 
but if the theatre or assembly hall accommodates not more than 
500 persons, such passageway shall be enclosed with unpierced 
fireproof or semi-fireproof ceiling, floor and partitions. 


Every theatre or public assembly hall which accommodates 
more than 300 persons shall have at least three walls abutting on 
streets, alleys, or open courts, except as follows: 

(1) If the building is not more than 100 feet long, and each 
aisle leads directly to an exit at the rear, then no side court will 
be required. 

_ (2) If the building is not more than 40 feet wide, 'and there 
is a cross aisle leading to a side exit at intervals no greater than 
every fifteenth row, then only one side court will be required. 

(3) If the first floor is fireproof and not more than 500 per- 
sons are accommodated, then only one side or rear court will be 
required. 


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The width of every exit court shall be at least six feet if the 
total seating capacity is not over 500 persons, and shall be in- 
creased at the rate of one foot per 500 persons additional. Every © 
such court shall lead to a public thoroughfare, either 
directly, or through a passageway of equal width, not less than 
eight feet high, and having unpierced standard fire walls, and 
fireproof ceiling and floor designed for a live load of at least 150 
pounds per square’ foot. No such court or passageway shall be 
used for storage or any other purpose whatsoever except for 
egress and ingress. 


Section 61. Buildings Used for Other Purposes 

No sleeping room or apartment shall be placed over a theatre 
which has a stage unless the entire building is of fireproof con- 
struction. 

No assembly hall shall be placed over a garage, unless separate 
therefrom by an unpierced fireproof floor. 

Every theatre or assembly hall built in connection with or as 
a part of a building used for other purposes, shall be separated 
from such other parts of the building by standard fire walls, 
except in the following cases: 

(1) fireproof private assembly halls. 

(2) non-fireproof private assembly halls accommodating not 
more than 400 persons. 

(3) halls in fireproof hotels accommodating not more than 
400 persons. 

(4) in non-fireproof buildings, standard fireproof partitions 
(Section 19) may be used instead of fire walls. 


Section 62. Capacity 


The capacity of a theatre or assembly hall shall be establened 
by the actual number of permanently fixed seats, plus an allow- 
ance of one person for every 3 square feet where “standing 
room” is provided. Such ‘‘standing room” shall not include any 
aisle, passageway, or lobby. Where permanently fixed seats are 
not provided, the capacity shall be established by allowing 15 
square feet of clear floor space per person in halls and used as 
dining or dance halls only, or six square feet per person in all 
other halls. (See Section 64.) 3 


No greater number of persons than the number thus estab- 
| lished ‘shall be permitted in any theatre or assembly hall. : 


Section 63. Exits 


Number and Location. Every theatre and assembly hall shall 
have two or more exits, placed as far apart as practicable, and 
so located that if any exit is blocked, some other exit will be ac- 
cessible from every part. Theatre exits shall be distributed on all 
open sides of the building. (See Section 60 and the paragraph 
in this section entitled “Width oF Exits’): 


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a 


This section shall apply separately to the main floor and to 
each baleony or gallery which seats more than 50 persons, if in 
a theatre; or more than 100 persons, if in a non-fireproof assem- 
bly hall; or more than 150 persons, if in a fireproof assembly 
hall; also to the stage, dressing room section, and other em- 
ployes’ room. 


Type of Exits. Exits from the first floor shall be standard 
exit doors with incline or steps to grade; if the doorsill is be- 
low grade, an incline shall be used except that a private as- 
sembly hall may have a stairway exit, from subgrade, or not 
more than ten risers in all. No part of any incline shall have 
a rise of more than one foot in five. Exits from upper floors, 
balconies and galleries shall be stairways (Section 20), horizon- 
tal exits (Section 21), fire escapes or inclines. 

Stairways. Every stairway in a theatre, public assembly hall, 
or non-fireproof private assembly hall, except stairways from the 
main floor to the first balcony, shall be enclosed as in Section 20. 
No storage closet shall be placed under any stairway. 

Stairways and steps which have more than three risers shall 
have handrails on both sides. (See Section 20). 

Every stairway used by the public in a theatre or public as- 
sembly hall, shall have a uniform rise of not more than 714 
inches and a uniform tread of not less than 10 inches, measured 
from tread and from riser to riser; no winders shall be used; 
there shall be not less than three, nor more than sixteen risers 
in any run. (For other stairs see Section 20). 

Fire Escapes. All fire escapes shall be “B” fire escapes (Sec- 
tion 22) except that “A” ‘fire escapes may be used for balconies 
which accommodate not more than 100 persons. 

Exit Doors. Every required exit door (whether usual or 
emergency) shall be a standard exit door (Section 23). 

No single door or leaf to a double door, shall be more than 
four feet wide. No two doors shall be hinged together. 

No rolling, sliding or revolving door shall be counted as an 
exit from any theater or assembly hall, nor shall any such door 
be permitted in any theatre where it would be liable to be used 
by the public as an exit. 

Sills at all exits shall be level and flush with adjacent inside 
floors, and such floors shall extend without break in the level 
or gradient for a distance not less than the width of the adja- 
cent aisle. 

(For exit lights and signs see Section 71.) 

Width of Exits. The total width of exits from every theatre 
and assembly hall, and from any part thereof, shall be at not 
less than the following rates: 

Theatres, non fireproof, 46 inches per 100 persons. 

Theatres, fireproof (except roof), 42 inches per 100 persons. 
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be at least one-half of the total required width. 
Assembly halls, non fireproof, 42 inches per 100 persons. 
Assembly halls, fireproof, 36 inches per 100 persons. 


Section 64. Seats 

All seats, chairs and benches shall be placed not less than 32 
inches for adults, or 30 inches for minors, from back to back 
measured horizontally ; except that folding seats of approved de-. 
sign, with backs not more than 14 inch thick, also fixed seats on 
an approximately level floor in an assembly hall, may be placed 
not less than 30 inches back to back, for the use of adults as 
well as minors. If benches without arms between seats are 
used, the seating capacity shall be established by allowing one 
sitting or seat to each 18 inches of length. 

All seats, chairs and benches, except chairs in boxes or log- 
gias, shall be securely fastened to the floor; or if the floor is 
level, the seats or chairs may be fastened together in groups of 
four or more. 

There shall be not more than 12 seats in a row between aisles, 
nor more than 5 seats in a row which has an aisle on one side 
only. 


No seat, bench or platform on which seats are placed shall 
be more than 22 inches in height or riser. No such seat bench _ 
shall be nearer the ceiling than 8 feet. : 


Section 65. Aisles and Passageways 

Width of.Aisles. Aisles having seats on both sides shall be 
not less than 2 feet 10 inches wide at the beginning and shall 
increase in width toward the exits at the rate of 14, inch per 
foot or run; or the aisle may have a uniform width not less 
than the average width of the foregoing calculation; but no wall 
aisle shall be less than 3 feet wide and no other straight aisle 
shall be less than three feet six inches wide. 


Where main aisles are longer than 40 feet, there shall be a 
cross aisle leading to each required side exit. Cross aisles shall 
be not less than four feet wide. 

Passageways and Foyers. Passageways and foyers shall be of 
width required under Section 63, and in no case less than 5 feet © 
wide, and shall be so designed and apportioned as to prevent 
congestion and confusion. Passageways and foyers which serve 


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as means of egress (whether usual or emergency) shall be at 
least equal in combined width to the required width of the stair- 
ways, passageways or doors leading to them. 

Inclines and Aisled Steps. To overcome any difference in level 
between courts, corridors, lobbies or passageways on the ground 
floor, inclines shall be employed. Inclines shall not exceed one 
foot of rise to five feet of run. 

Steps in balcony aisles shall extend the full width of tis aisle. 

Obstruction. All aisles and passageways shall be kept free 
from camp stools, chairs and other obstructions, and no person 
except an employe shall be allowed to stand in or occupy any of 
the aisles, foyers or passageways during any performance or 
public gathering. 

Section 66. Elevator Enclosures 

All elevators shall be enclosed with standard fireproof en- 
closures designed and built in accordance with Section 19, under 
the paragraph headed ‘Standard Fireproof Enclosures or Parti- 
tion.” 

Section 67. Stage 

Where Required. The requirements of this section shall apply 
to all theatre stages, except that in a motion picture theatre an 
open platform not more than 8 feet in depth will be permitted in 
-front of the motion picture screen, provided such screen is a 
stationary fireproof or semi-fireproof wall or partition, and the 
space behind such screen (if any) is entirely separated from 
the platform and auditorium by such partitions, and the plat- 
form has no curtain or scenery. 

In a private assembly hall having a stage or platform which is 
more than six feet wider or higher than the proscenium open- 
ing, or which is equipped with movable scenery, such stage 
shall be protected as required by this section. (See Section 58). 

Proscenium Wall. The proscenium wall shall competely sep- 
arate the stage from the auditorium, and shall be of brick, plain 
or reinforced concrete, or other approved material, with all steel- 
work fireproof, except as follows: 

In a private assembly hall, a fireproof partition (Section 19) 
may be used. 

In any theatre or hall which accommodates not more than 400 
persons, a semi-fireproof partition (Section 19) may be used. 

The proscenium wall shall extend from the basement floor 
to the roof, except in fireproof buildings. It shall contain not 
more than two openings of not more than 21 square feet each 
(excluding the proscenium opening.) Such openings shall be 
provided with standard fire doors, or (where a semi-fireproof 
partition is permitted) with wood doors lined with metal on the 
stage side. 

Fireproof Curtain. The proscenium opening shall be pro- 
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conforming to the following specifications, or of equivalent ap- 
proved construction. Detailed plans and specifications for such 
curtains and their operating mechanism shall be submitted to 
the Building Commissioner for approval, before installation. 


Asbestos curtains shall be substantially woven of asbestos 
fibre not less than 95 per cent pure and shall weigh not less than 
214 pounds per square yard. All seams shall be lapped not less 
than one inch and sewed in two rows with not less than 1/16 
inch pure asbestos twine. At the top and bottom of the curtain 
at 114 inch (or larger) pipe shall be placed and shall be securely 
fastened in and covered by the curtain. The curtain shall over- 
lap the proscenium wall not less than 12 inches at each side and 
at the top, and shall be guided at each side by metallic loops or 
rings sliding on a steel cable. No combustible paint shall be 
used. | 


For curtains of any type, the connections between curtain and 
wall shall be made as nearly smoke-proof as possible. Provision 
shall be made to prevent the curtain from leaving or binding on 
the guides under any conditions. No part of a curtain or any 
of the curtain guides shall be supported by, or fastened to any 
combustible material. 

The hoisting apparatus for the curtain shall be designed with 
a factor of safety of eight or more. 


Besides the regular operating mechanism there shall be an 
emergency device which will allow the curtain to drop by grav- 
ity. The device shall be so arranged that it can be easily oper- 
ated by hand from each side of the stage and from the fly gal- 
leries, and also that its operation will be controlled by fusible 
links ‘placed on each side of the stage, and when thus operated 
it shall descend at its normal rate of speed. 

The curtain and its operating mechanism shall be so designed 
and constructed at all points, whether specifically mentioned or 
not, as to form an efficient and reliable barrier against fire and 
smoke, according to the best practice. 


Automatic Ventilator. The stage shall be provided with one 
or more automatic ventilators placed near the center and above 
the highest part of the stage, with the bottom of the opening 
at least three feet above the roof, and having a combined area 
equal to at least eight per cent of the area of the stage floor. 
Vertical louvre openings shall be not less than twice the sectional 
area of the shaft. The ventilator shall be designed and con- 
structed so as to open by gravity, and so as to effectively over- 
come the effects of neglect, rust, dirt, frost, snow, heat, twisting, 
or warping of the frame work. The louvres or dampers in the 
openings shall be held closed by cotton or hemp cords running 
to the stage floor close to each stage door. Fusible links shall 
be inserted in each cord near the ventilation. 


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Stage Vestibule. All entrances to the stage shall be vestibuled 
in such manner as to protect the curtain, scenery, and auditor- 
ium from draughts of air. 

Footlight Trough. The footlight trough shall pe made of in- 
combustible material. 

Fireproof Paint. All stage scenery, curtains, and decorations 
made of combustible material, and all woodwork in or about the 
stage, shall be painted or saturated with some incombustible 
material or otherwise rendered safe against fire. 


Section 68. Dressing Rooms, Property Rooms, Etc. 

All dressing rooms, property rooms, and other storage or 
workrooms shall be built of incombustible material throughout 
and shall be separated from the stage by fireproof walls or par- 
titions. 

No dressing room nor employes’ room shall be placed more 
than one story below the grade line and no dressing room shall 
be placed above or below the auditorium. 


Section 69. Boiler and Furnace Rooms 

Every boiler or furnace room, including breaching, shall be 
enclosed with standard fire walls and with fireproof ceiling and 
floor each designed to carry a live load of at least 150 pounds per 
square foot; except that in the case of a private assembly hall 
accommodating not more than 300 persons, the floors and walls 
of the boiler or furnace room shall be incombustible, but fire 
doors and fireproof ceiling will not be required. (See also Sec- 
tions 30, 34 and 70). 


Section 70. Heating and Ventilating 

Every theatre and assembly hall shall be provided with a ven- 
tilating system which will furnish at least 1,200 cubic feet of 
fresh air per hour, for each person accommodated in the audi- 
torium and which will also change the air at least six times per 
hour in all other occupied parts of the building. The fresh air 
shall be taken from the outside of the building and no vitiated 
air shall be re-heated unless it has been washed by a mechanical 
air washer of approved design. No floor register for heating 
or ventilating shall be placed in any aisle or passageway unless 
such register is reinforced with suitable wrought iron or steel 
ribs not more than 12 inches apart. Radiators in passageways 
or auditorium shall be recessed, or elevated at least seven feet 
above the floor. 

Section 71. Lights 

Oil and Gas. (See also Section 35). No oil lamp shall be used 
in or about any stage containing scenery. 

No gas lighting of any kind shall be used on any stage con- 
taining scenery, nor in any property room, storage room, scene 
dock, or fly gallery. Gas fire used for heating water, etc., shall 
be enclosed in iron jackets. 


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Exit Lights. Theatres. Exit lights shall be provided over all 
exits (both usual and emergency) and in such other places as 
may be necessary to direct the audience, performers, and em- 
ployes to a street or alley. Such exit lights shall be either— 

(1) Electric lights (See Section 36 and special requirements 
for theatres in National Electrical Code). 

(2) Candles, or oil lamps using non-volatile oil and floating 
wick; such lights shall be properly shielded from drafts and 
from adjacent woodwork or other combustible material. 

Every light over an exit (both usual and emergency) shall be 
provided with a red illuminated sign bearing the word “exit” 
or “out” in plain letters at least five inches high, or a similar 
~ sign shall be placed below a red light. 

All public parts of the theatre (except the auditorium), and 
all exit lights, shall remain lighted throughout every perform- 
ance and until the audience has left the building. 

Exit Lights. Assembly Halls. Every assembly hall in which 
the auditorium is not kept lighted throughout every perform- 
ance or entertainment, shall be lighted the same as required for 
theatres, as described elsewhere in this section. 

In all other assembly halls, all stairways, passageways, and 
exit doors shall remain lighted throughout every performance or 
entertainment and until the audience has left the building. 
Emergency exit doors shall be marked with red lights as in 
Section 23. 

Section 72. Toilet Rooms 7 

Separate toilet rooms in connection with the auditorium shal] 
be provided for males and females. One closet shall be installed 
for each 200 females or fraction, and one closet and one urinal 
for each 300 males or fraction, assuming the audience to be 
equally divided between males and females; except that in dance 
halls there shall be provided one water-closet for each 100 fe- 
males or fraction, one urinal for each 150 males or fraction and 
one water-closet for each 300 males or fraction. 

There shall be separate water closets provided for males and 
females in connection with the stage of every theatre which ac- 
commodates more than 500 persons, except theatres used for 
motion picture exhibitions only. . 

Separate drinking fountains shall be provided. for the stage 
and auditorium. 


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One washbow] shall be provided for every two closets or urin- 
als, or fraction. (See also Section 39). 


Section 73. Fire Protection 

Standpipes. (For exterior standpipes see Section 22). 

One or more standard interior standpipes (Section 25) shall 
be provided on the stage of every theatre and every private as- 
sembly hall which has a stage (see Section 67). Each hose 
shall be not more than 75 feet long, and where such hose will 
not reach all parts of the stage section (including dressing, prop- 
erty, storage and work rooms) additional hose connections and 
hose, or additional standpipes shall be provided. 

Fire Extinguishers. Standard fire extinguishers (Section 25) 
shall be provided as follows: 

All theatres including motion picture theatres: 

Two on stage (if more than 1,500 square feet of scenery is 
used). | 

One on stage or platform (if not more than 1,500 square feet 
of scenery is used). 

One in motion picture booth, or in ticket’ office if there is no 
booth. 

One in dressing room section. 

Public assembly halls, and private assembly halls which have 
a stage: 

One on or near stage or platform. 

One in or near ticket office (if capacity of hall is more than 
500 persons). | 

Extinguishers shall be properly exposed to view and always 
accessible. 

Automatic Sprinklers. Every theatre which accommodates 
more than 600 persons shall have approved automatic sprinklers 
(Section 25) on the stage, under the stage, under the fly gal- 
leries, and under the stage roof, but not in automatic ventilator. 

Fire Alarm. Every theatre which accommodates more than 
1,000 persons shall have a fire alarm box on the stage. 


Section 74. Mirrors: False Openings 
No false opening giving the appearance of a door or window, 
where none exists, shall be placed in any part of a theatre or 
assembly hall used by the public. 
No mirror shall be placed in any part of a theatre or assem- 
bly hall used by the general public except in the women’s and 
“men’s retiring and toilet rooms. 


Section 75. Motion Picture Machines and Booths 
Definition. By the term “picture machine” as. used in this 
code is meant any device used to project upon a surface moving 
pictures of any character which an audience is admitted to view. 


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Construction of Booth. Every picture machine using a nitro- 
cellulose or other inflammable film shall, before being operated, 
be installed in a booth constructed entirely of fire resisting mate- 
rial, such as brick, tile, concrete, two-inch plaster on metal lath 
and metal frame or of sheet iron or asbestos sheathing as spe- 
cified below; provided that approved types of portable motion 
picture machines may be used without a booth in factories and 
offices where employes are assembled for instructional purposes, 
or in assembly halls having a floor area of not more than 1,200 
square feet, where not more than two exhibitions are given each 
month. In every case where a booth is not used a tight metal 
cabinet shall be provided and used for storing metal containers 
of films not in use. 

The size of the booth (for one machine) shall be not less than 
five feet by five by six feet high. 

Note: Booths at least six by six by seven feet are recom- 
mended. 

Every booth made of sheet iron or asbestos sheathing shall 
have its frame constructed of not less than 114x114x3/16 inch 
steel angles or tees, properly braced to secure rigidity, and se- 
curely riveted or bolted at joints. The sheathing shall be not less 
than No. 20 U.S. gauge sheet iron or 14, inch hard asbestos wood 
or lumber, securely riveted or bolted to the frame. No sheet 
metal booth shall be placed nearer to any combustible partition, 
wall, or ceiling, than twelve inches. 

The floor shall be constructed of the same material as the sides 
and top, or of concrete. If the floor is made of sheet metal, it 
must be well riveted, or bolted to frame, and covered with a 
rubber or cork matting. 

Door. The door shall be not larger than two by five feet, and 
shall either be of the same construction as the booth, or be at 
least 34, inch thick and clad with metal not less than No.*28 U.S. 
gauge. The door shall swing outward, and close automatically 
either by means of a spring on the outside or by a metal rope 
and weight. 

Openings. The openings for the operator’s view, or for the 
picture, shall be not larger than 12 inches square, and shall be 
provided with a gravity door, of the same construction as spe- 
cified for the booth, held open by fusible links placed in series, 
so arranged that one of the links is suspended directly over the 
film when it is in the slide of the apparatus; or the door shall 
be so arranged as to be closed, except when held open by pres- 
sure of the operator. Such door shall not be blocked or held 
open in any manner except as here described. 

Ventilation. Each booth shall be provided with a metal venti- 
lating pipe not less than 12 inches in diameter, extending out- 
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If a standard fire window is provided not less than four square 
feet in area, connecting with the outside air, and opening not 
less than one-half, then the ventilating pipe may be omitted. 
In a private assembly hall where the picture machine is oper- 
ated only occasionally and for short periods of time, the ven- 
tilating pipe may be omitted. . 

Electric Wiring. All electric wiring in the booth shall have an 
approved slow burning insulation. Each lamp connected with 
a picture machine shall be provided with a separate switch lo- 
cated within the booth. 

Machine. Every machine shall be provided with feed and take- 
up reels in metal receiving boxes with riveted or flanged joints. 
A shutter shall be placed in front of the condenser, arranged 
so as to be closed except when held open by the operator, or by 
some other device that will insure the immediate dropping of 
the shutter when operation of the machine is stopped. 

Films, etc. Magazines shall be used for receiving and deliv- 
ering the films during the operation of the machine. Films not 
in the machine shall be kept in metal boxes with tight fitting 
covers when in the booth. No combustible substance of any sort 
shall be permitted in the booth, except the films used in opera- 
tion. No smoking shall be permitted in any booth. 

Temporary Booths. Every temporary booth shall be of ap- 
proved design, conforming as far as possible to the requirements 
for permanent booths. Every booth used for more than three 
consecutive performances in one location will be considered a 
permanent booth. 


Part. VIL 


School Buildings, Libraries and Museums 
The requirements of the following sections apply to buildings 
of this classification only. 
For other general requirements, see Parts I to IV. 


Section 76. Classification 
This classification includes all public, parochial, and private 
schools, colleges, academies, seminaries, libraries, museums and 
art galleries; including all buildings or parts of buildings used 
for the purpose of acquiring knowledge. 


Section 77. Height and Class of Construction 

Maximum Height. No building which accommodates primary 
or grammar grades, or pupils averaging 14 years old or less, 
shall be more than three stories high, nor shall the topmost floor 
level be more than 35 feet above the grade at any outside door. 

No building which is used as a high school, or which accom- 
modates pupils averaging 18 years old or less, shall be more 
than four stories high, nor shall the topmost floor level be more 
than 48 feet above the grade at any outside door. 


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Class of Construction. Every building which is more than 
one story high shall be of fireproof construction. 

Buildings not more than one story high may be of ordinary 
mill or fireproof construction. 

First Floor Fireproof. In all one-story buildings the floor shall 
be of fireproof construction, except that floor panels and non- 
bearing partitions may be of protected construction. (See Sec- 
tion 11). 

Subdivisions and Fire Stops. Every building of this classifi- 
cation which is built in connection with a building of a lower 
grade of construction, shall be separated from such other build- 
ing by standard fire walls, and all communicating openings shall 
be protected by standard fire doors. If such openings are used 
as a means of egress, they shall be kept normally open during 
the occupancy of the building. 

In primary and grammar schools, the girls’ and boys’ portions: 
of the basement shall be separated by a fireproof partition in 
which there shall be no opening except a door for the use of the 
janitor, kept normally closed. 


Section 78. Exposure and Courts 

No wall containing windows which .light a school or class- 
room shall be less than 30 feet away from any opposite building, 
structure or lot line, or opposite court wall; except that the dis- 
tance from such opposite court wall may be reduced to not less 
than 20 feet provided light rays at an angle of 45 degrees are not 
thereby obstructed from entering the entire upper half of any 
such window. 

Section 79. Exits 

Number, Location, and Type. The number and location of 
exits shall be such that, in case any exit or passageway is blocked 
at any point, some other exit will still be accessible, through 
public passageways, from every classroom, and from every other 
room used by the public or by the occupants generally. 

In a one-room building only one exit will be required. In a 
one-story, two-room building only one exit will be required, pro- 
vided all basement partitions are of incombustible material and 
the boiler room door is a standard fire door. 

At least one-half of the required exits, in buildings of more 
than one story, shall be stairways (Section 20). The remain- 
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21) ; or fire escapes may be used as exits from floors which are 
not more than 40 feet above grade. All fire escapes on buildings 
which accommodate more than 100 persons above the first floor 
shall be “‘B” fire escapes. 

In every building which accommodates more than 120 persons 
above the first floor, there shall be at least two stairways. In 
buildings of more than two stories, the stairways shall be en- 
closed as in Section 20. | 

Closets shall not be placed below non-fireproof stairways. 


Handrails shall be provided on both sides of all exit” Stairs ee 


used by pupils. 
Basement stairways which lead to the first floor shall: bb, sep- 
arated by standard fireproof partitions (Section 19) from: all° 


parts of the basement which are used for general storage or - 3 


for the storage of inflammable material. At least one basement 
exit shall open directly to the outside. nt 

Total Width. The total width of exits from any floop:ahall 
be not less than the following rates, based on the total number 
of persons accommodated on such floor and on the floors above: 

Non-fireproof buildings, 40 inches per 100 persons. 

Fireproof buildings, 30 inches per 100 persons. 

If the stairways are enclosed and an approved sreeiiattG 
sprinkler system is provided in the basement, such width may 
be reduced as in Section 49. 

Standard fire escapes (Section 22) may be used for not to 
exceed one-third of the above total widths;: ‘subject to the limi- 
tations given in “Number, Location and Type.’ | 

The capacity of a school building shall be established by the 
actual number of seats in rooms where such are used, or by the 
number of persons accommodated. The capacity of a library, 
museum, or art gallery shall be established by allowing to each 
person 100 square feet of the total floor area of the building, 
excluding stairways and elevators. 

Exit Doors. Exit doors shall be as required in Section 23, 
except that they shall be not less than two feet eight inches 
wide if used by children under 14 years. The aggregate width 
of exit doors shall be as required in this section under the head- 
ing “Total Width.” . No single door or leaf of a double door 
shall be more than four feet wide. No revolving door shall be 
considered as a required exit from a building used by persons 
under 18 years of age. 

Passageways. Corridors and passageways shall be so designed 
as to prevent congestion and confusion and shall be provided 
with windows and artificial light so as to be kept well lighted 
while the building is occupied. 

The minimum unobstructed width of corridors and passage- 
ways which are used by the public or by the occupants generally 
shall be determined the same as the width of stairways and shall 


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in no case be less than four feet. Corridors and passageways 
serving as a means of egress shall be at least equal in combined 
width to the required width of the stairways or passageways 
leading to them. 
Section 80. Scuttle 

- Every building more than one story in height shall have a 
permanent means of access to the roof from the inside. The 
opening shall be not less than 20x30 inches and there shall be a 
permanent: ladder or stairway leading thereto. 


Section 81. Rooms, Windows and Lights 
Floor Space, Height, Glass Area, Lights. The minimum floor 
space of school or classrooms shall be: 
For. primary grades, 12 square feet per person. 
For grammar grades, 14 square feet per person. 
All others, 16 square feet per person. 


- All class recitation and study rooms (not including manual 
training or domestic science rooms) shall be at least 12 feet high 
in the clear. All other rooms shall be at least eight feet high in 
the clear. | 


Windows shall be placed either at the left or at the left and 
rear of pupils when seated. The tops of windows (except in li- 
braries, museums and art galleries) shall not be placed more 
than eight inches below the minimum ceiling height as estab- 
lished in the preceding paragraph. 


-In study, class, recitation and laboratory rooms there shall 
be at least one square foot of glass surface (windows and sky- 
lights) for every six square feet of floor surface, if the room 
‘is lighted from the left side only. If lighted from the rear as 
well as from the left, the glass area shall be at least one-fifth of 
the floor area. 


“All windows shall be placed in the exterior walls of ‘he build- 
ing; except that halls, corridors, stock and supply chests may be 
lighted by ventilated skylights or by windows placed in interior 
walls or partitions. Museums, libraries and art galleries may 
be lighted by skylights. 

-The-width of all study, class and recitation rooms (measuring 
at right atigles to the glass surface) when lighted from one side 
only shall not exceed two and one-fourth times the height of the 
window head above the floor. 

_.Each classroom shall be large enough to accommodate forty- 
five pupils and shall be at least 23 feet wide by 32 feet long. 

Eight feet shall be reserved at the end of the room for the 
use of the teacher. The corresponding wall space may con- 
veniently. be provided with a blackboard: to contain programs, 
etc. The teacher’s desk shall be placed at the end of the room 
and not on the long side. 


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Window sills shall be from 36 to 42 inches above the floor; for 
grades above the fourth, such height shall be 42 inches. 

At the front of the room, eight feet of blank wall shall be left 
between the front corner and the first window. In classrooms 
lighted from the side only, this blank wall may be reduced to 
four feet; the first window shall then be provided with shade 
for use on bright days. Windows shall extend as close as pos- 
sible to the rear corner. 

Outlets for at least four electric lights shall be provided for 
each room of standard size. 

Blackboards shall be from 24 inches (for primary . grades) 
to 30 inches (for upper grades) above the floor, and from 36 
to 48 inches high. A wide aisle shall be provided next to all 
blackboards. 


Window Shades. Classroom windows shall be equipped with 
window shades adequate for the purpose of excluding direct sun- 
shine or excessively bright light from the sky. 

These shades must perform several functions, namely, the 
diffusion of direct sunlight, the control of illumination to obtain 
reasonable uniformity, the elimination of glare from the visible 
sky and the elimination of reflected glare from the blackboards. 
Each window shall be equipped with two shades operated by 
double rollers placed near the level of the meeting rail. (Shades 
so placed may be raised or lowered from the middle, which pro- 
vides flexibility for shading and diffusing the light.) The mate- 
rial of the shade (preferably yellow or tan colored) must be 
sufficiently translucent to transmit a considerable percentage of 
the light while at the same time diffusing it. ; 

An alternate method of shading that will be permitted consists 
of two independent sets of shades at each window. The one, 
a translucent shade, shall roll from the top down; the other, a 
very dark, heavy shade (preferably green) shall roll from the 
bottom upward. 

Basement Rooms. No class, recitation, or study room (not in- 
cluding manual training or domestic science rooms) shall have 
its floor more than two feet below the adjoining grade. Manual 
training and domestic science rooms, toilet rooms, and other 
rooms used by pupils (not including playrooms) shall have ceil- 
ing at least four feet above grade. The walls and floor of every 
basement room used by pupils or students shall be waterproof 
and dampproof. 

Section 82. Assembly Halls 

A room which seats or accommodates 100 or more persons 
is governed by the requirements of Part VI, Theatres-and. As- 
sembly Halls, except as follows: 

The minimum width of any exit doorway used by children 
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three feet four inches) ; but in any case the aggregate width 
of such doorways shall be in accordance. with Part VI. 

Assembly halls in schools shall be placed on the first floor, to 
avoid the danger of panic. 


Section 83. Seats, Desks and Aisles | 

Seats, chairs and desks (except those used by teachers) in 
class, recitation, or study rooms seating more than 50 persons 
shall be securely fastened to the floor; or not less than four seats 
(or two seats and two desks) shall be fastened together. 

Class and schoolrooms shall have aisles along all walls. 

In primary rooms, intermediate aisles shall be not less than 
17 inches, and wall- aisles not less than two feet four inches in 
width. 

In grammar rooms, intermediate aisles shall be not less than 
18 inches and wall aisles not less than two feet six inches in 
width. 

In high school rooms and in all other class and schoulennte 
intermediate aisles shall be not less than 20 inches and wall 
aisles not less than 3 feet in width. 

Assembly hall seats and aisles shall conform to the require- 
ments for assembly halls (Section 64 and 65). 


Section 84. Boiler and Furnace Room 

In buildings of more than one story all boiler or furnace 
rooms, fuel rooms and laundries shall be enclosed (together with 
breaching) with fireproof floor and ceiling and with incombus- 
tible walls at least 8 inches thick (or 5 inches thick if of rein- 
forced concrete) with all openings protected by standard fire 
doors. Such boiler or furnace shall be separated as effectively as 
possible, either by distance or by partitions and doors, from all 
stairways leading to the first floor, and especially from stair- 
ways which lead continuously to the upper floors. 


Section 85. Toilet Rooms 
School buildings shall have the following sanitary equipment: 
One water-closet for every 20 females or fraction except for 
grammar and primary grades, where there shall be one water- 
closet for every 15 females or fraction. 
One water-closet and one urinal for every 40 males or frac- 
tion, except for grammar and primary grades, where there shall 


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be one water-closet and one urinal for every 30 males or fraction. 


A drinking fountain and sink shall be installed in each story 
and basement, for each 6,000 square feet of floor area, or frac- 
tion. Drinking fountains shall not be installed in toilet rooms. 


One washbowl! shall be provided for every two closets or 
urinals. 


(See also Section 39.) 


Section 86. Ventilation 

All parts of the building generally used by the public or the 
occupants, except the corridors, passageways and stairways, 
shall be provided with fresh air at the rate of at least 1,200 
feet (cubic) per person per hour. The fresh air shall be taken 
from the outside of the building and no vitiated air shall be 
reheated unless washed by a mechanical air washer of approved 
design; in such case not less than one-third of the required air 
shall be taken from the outside. 


Where -no fan is provided, the area of heat flues for class- 
rooms shall be at least 1/200 of the floor area and the area of 
the cold air inlet, also of vent flues, shall be at least 1/250 of 
the floor area. If no fan is provided and steam heat is used 
there shall be at least 160 square feet of radiating surface at 
the base of the fresh air flue for each room which will accommo- 
date 40 pupils, and corresponding amounts for larger or smaller 
rooms. Every heating plant shall include adequate provisions 
for humidifying the air. 


Foul air outlets shall be placed in the wall, flush with the floor 
and not provided with gratings. Fresh air inlets shall be 714 
or 8 feet above the floor. Floor registers are not recommended ; 
registers for warming the feet may be placed in the baseboards. 
Fresh air shall be taken from the outside through.a fresh air 
room and not admitted directly from the outside. For heating - 
the building while unoccupied, a return flue may be provided 
with wing register in the wall (not the floor). 


In gravity heating and ventilating systems the vent flue shall 
not open into the attic but shall be carried through the roof. 
Where a fan is used the flues may open into the attic provided 
the attic has a tight floor and sufficient ventilation through the 
roof is provided. 

The heating and ventilating system should be considered as 
a part of the general design, and should be laid out by, or in 
colloboration with, the architect. The contract for such systems 
should not be let until the general design has been worked out. 

The heating and ventilating systems must be subject to a 
satisfactory test during cold weather, the city meanwhile with- 
holding 25 per cent of the contract price or requiring an equiv- 
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Section 87. Lighting 
Artificial Lighting. Each classroom of standard size (32 feet 
long by 23 feet wide) shall be equipped with at least four ar- 
tificial lighting units symmetrically spaced. 
At least one circuit of 660 watts capacity shall be supplied to 
each standard classroom. 


Section 88. Standpipes and Fire Extinguishers 

(For standard exterior standpipes see Section 22.) 

In every building which is more than one story high and which 
is not provided with interior standpipes, standard chemical fire 
extinguishers (Section 25) shall be provided to each 3,000 square 
feet of floor area or fraction in non-fireproof buildings, or one 
to each 8,000 square feet of floor area or fraction in fireproof 
buildings; but there shall be at least one fire extinguisher on - 
each floor including basement. All fire extinguishers shall be 
prominently exposed to view and always accessible. 

Automatic sprinklers (Section 25) will be required in all 
parts of the basement where combustible material is likely to 
be stored. . 

Section 89. Fire Alarms 

Every building two stories or more in height shall be provided 
with a proper alarm or gongs which can be operated from any 
story, including basement, and can be heard throughout the 
building. Such | alarm system shall be tested at least once a week. 

Note on motion picture stages and booths. 

(For motion picture booths and stages in schools see Section 
58). 


PART VIII 


Dwellings, Apartment Houses, Hotels and Places 
of Detention 


The following requirements apply to buildings of this classi- 
fication only. 

For other general requirements, see Parts Ito IV. For rooms 
which accommodate more than 100 persons, see Part VI, 
Theatres and Assembly Halls. 


Section 80. Classification 

Dwellings. This classification includes every building or part 
of a building occupied as a residence by one or two families liv- 
ing independently, or occupied by one such family and also used 
for business purposes. 

Apartment (Tenement Houses.) This classification includes 
every building or part of a building occupied as the residence of 
three or more families living independently, or occupied by two 
such families and also used for business purposes. 


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Hotels and Places of Detention. This classification includes 
all hotels, lodging and boarding houses, clubhouses, dormitories, 
convents, hospitals, asylums, jails and other places of detention, 
including every building or part of a building used for sleeping 
or lodging purposes by three or more persons not members of a 
family. | 

Minimum Size for Residence Use: Size of Rooms. Every 
building hereafter erected or converted for residence use shall 
have a number of rooms (exclusive of closets, bathrooms, attics 
and storerooms) equal to or exceeding the number of regular oc- 
cupants of the building. Every such building shall have at least 
one living room to contain not less than 120 square feet of area 
and every room used for sleeping purposes shall have an area 
of not less than eighty square feet of floor area and the ceiling 
height shall be not less than eight feet from the floor line of 
said room. Door and window height shall not be less than six 
(6) feet eight (8) inches, and said rooms shall have a window 
area of not less than one-tenth of the floor area. Windows must 
be constructed in such a way as will permit their being opened to 
half of their area. 


Foundation for Dwellings. All buildings or parts thereof to 
be used as dwelling or for human habitation hereafter erected 
in the City of Waukegan, shall be erected upon solid foundations 
of stone, brick, tile or concrete and shall be carried up to at least 
the elevation of the lower edge of the first floor joists and the 
footings shall not be less than four (4) feet below the finished 
surface of the ground. 


Section 91. Height and Class of Construction and Fire Stops 

Fireproof Construction. All places of detention, where per- 
sons are confined by locked doors or barred windows, shall be 
of fireproof construction (Section 10). : 

Hospitals and benevolent institutions of two or more stories 
in height shall be of fireproof construction. 

All other buildings in this classification four or more stories 
in height shall be of fireproof construction. 

Non-Fireproof Construction. Buildings of this classification 
(other than hospitals, benevolent institutions and places of de- 
tention) two or three stories high may be of fireproof, mill or 
ordinary construction, except that in three-story buildings the 
first floor and all members supporting the same shall be of fire- 
proof construction, and outside the fire limits two-story dwell- 
ings may be of frame construction. 

All buildings in this classification (other than places of de- 
tention) one-story in height may be of fireproof, mill, ordinary 
or frame construction, except that no frame building may be 
constructed within the fire limits. 

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whose first story is used for a garage, the first story ceiling shall 
be of fireproof construction. 

_In three-story buildings whose first story is used for business 
purposes, the ceiling shall be of fireproof construction (See 
Section 19). 

Room Containing Inflammable Material. Every room or 
apartment which is used for a carpenter or paint shop, or other 
equally inflammable material, shall be enclosed with fireproof 
ceiling and floor and with incombustible walls at least eight © 
inches thick (or five inches thick if of reinforced concrete) with 
all openings protected by standard fire doors. 

Corridor and Dividing Partitions. In every three-story build- 
ing which has more than one apartment or eight rooms on any 
floor, the public passageways shall be enclosed with fireproof or 
semi-fireproof partitions (Section 19); if there is more than 
one apartment on any floor, such apartments shall be separated 
by such partitions; if there are more than eight rooms on any 
floor, they shall be divided by such partitions into SronEs of 
not more than eight rooms each. 


Section 92. Yards 

Behind every apartment house, the rear of which does not abut 
on an alley or street, there shall be a yard across the entire width 
of the lot, open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky. 
The width of the yard behind a two story building shall be 
either: 

(1) At least 5 feet of unobstructed width; or 

(2) At least 10 feet from the rear lot line, to the building 
line of which at least 3 feet shall be obstructed, and the re- 
mainder may be occupied by an open (or screened) porch. 

For apartment houses of more than two stories, the unob- 
structed width of the entire yard shall be increased one foot for 
each additional story, except in the case of corner lots. 

No apartment house shall be placed behind any other building. 
Every apartment house shall abut on a street and the front wall 
shall be at least 25 feet from the center of the street. 


Section 93. Courts and Shafts 
All courts and shafts for light, air, or dumbwaiter, shall be 
completely enclosed with fireproof or semi-fireproof partitions or 
walls (Section 19) except as provided below. . 


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In the case of a semi-fireproof partition enclosing a court of 
shaft in a building of not more than three stories, the fire-re- 
sisting material will only be required on the side of the partition 
toward the court or shaft. 

In a fireproof building, an open well piercing the second (mez- 
zanine) floor only, will be permitted. The mezzanine floor will 
be considered as a full story. 

Walls of outer courts and lot line courts shall be constructed 
the same as required for outside walls. 

Elevator shafts shall be designed and built in accordance with 
paragraph headed “Standard Fireproof Enclosure or Partition,” 
Section 19. 

(For minimum sizes, etc., of courts and shafts, see Section 
rtd 

Section 94. Exits 

Number, Location, Type. There shall be at least two exits 
accessible from each room or apartment, and such exits shall be 
at least 30 feet apart, measuring along the shortest line but not 
piercing any fireproof partition or wall. The number and loca- 
tion of exits shall be such that in case any exit or passageway 
is blocked at any point, some other exit will still be accessible, 
through public passageways, from every room or apartment; 
also that the entrance to each room or apartment will be not 
more than 50 feet distant from an exit (measuring. along public 
passageways) if in a non-fireproof building, or 75 feet in a 
. fireproof building. 

At least one-half of the required exits, in buildings of more 
than one story, shall be stairways (Section 20). The remaining 
exits shall be either stairways, or horizontal exits (Section 21) ; 
or fire escapes may be used as exits from floors which are not 
more than 40 feet above grade. Every building which accommo- 
dates more than one family or eight persons above the second 
story shall have at least two stairways. 

Fire escapes for hospitals and asylums shall be “B”’ fire 
escapes. 

Stairways. In three-story buildings, all stairways shall be 
enclosed as in Section 20, unless the building is either fireproof 
or sprinklered. In three-story buildings accommodating more 
than two families or 15 persons above the first story, all base- 
ment stairways shall be enclosed with fireproof enclosures. 

In buildings of more than three stories, all stairways shall be 
so enclosed, except that in fireproof buildings one stairway may 
be unenclosed from the first to the third (or second) floor, pro- 
vided such stairway is enclosed in the third (or second) story 
and does not lead to the basement. 

In all buildings of more than two stories, in which the first 
story is used for business purposes, at least one stairway shall be 


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enclosed in the first story with an unpierced fireproof enclosure 
(Section 19) and such stairway shall not connect with the base- 
ment. 

In apartment houses, outside stairways may be counted as 
exits if covered by a roof. If more than one family is accom- 
modated above the second story, the stringers and other sup- 
porting members of outside stairs and platforms shall be of 
incombustible material; the treads and floorings, if of wood, 
shall be at least 1 5/8 inches thick. If more than two families 
are accommodated above the second story, the adjoining doors 
and windows shall be protected as in Section 22. 

Aggregate Width. The aggregate width of exits shall be as 
provided in Section 49. 

Exit Doors. Exit doors shall be as specified in Section 238; 
except that a door which is used by not more than six families 
or 40 persons, shall be not less than 3 feet wide and shall not 
be required to open outward. 3 

Passageways. Every public passageway leading from an exit 
shall be at least as wide as the required width of such exit. 
Every public passageway leading to an exit shall be at least 
three feet wide. The required width shall be kept clear and 
unobstructed at all times. 


Section 95. Lights 
In every-building which accommodates more than four fam- 
ilies or thirty persons, and in every building which accommo- 
dates transients, the public passageways and stairways and exit 
doors shall be illumined from one hour after sunset to one hour 
before sunrise. This illumination shall include lights at all in- 
tersections of passageways, at all exits, and at the head and 
foot of every stairway. The lights at emergency exit doors 
shall be red lights and shall be accompanied by a sign bearing 
the words “exit’’ or “‘out’’ in plain letters. 
(See also Sections 23, 35 and 36). 


Section 96. Scuttle 
Every building more than one story in height which accom- 
modates more than four families or thirty persons shall have 
a permanent means of access to the roof from the inside. The 
opening shall be not less than 20x30 inches and there shall be 
a permanent ladder or stairway leading thereto. 


Section 97. Rooms and Windows 
Size and Height of Rooms. Every sleeping room shall have 
at least 800 cubic feet of air space. All stories above the base- 
ment must be at least eight feet high from floor to ceiling. 
Basement Rooms. Every basement living or sleeping room 
shall be at least eight feet high from floor to ceiling, except that 
basement of dwellings may be seven feet high. The ceiling 


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shall be at least four feet above the outside grade, except that 
in dwellings this height may be three feet. The walls and floor 
shall be damp proof and waterproof. 

No rooms wherein persons are forcibly confined shall be lo- 
cated in a basement. 

Windows. The outside windows in every sleeping or living 
_ room shall have a total area of at least one-tenth of the floor area 

of the room, but not less than 12 square feet. The top of at 
least one such window shall be not less than 614 feet above the 
floor, and the upper half of it shall be made so as to open the full 
width. (See also Section 29). 


Section 98. Laundries, Boiler and Furnace Rooms 

All boiler and furnace rooms, including breaching, and all 
laundries and drying rooms, in all buildings accommodating 
transients and in hospitals, asylums and other places of deten- 
tion, shall be enclosed with standard fireproof enclosures and 
fireproof floor and ceiling. (See also Sections 31 to 34 inclu- 
sive). 

Section 99. Ventilation 

Pure air shall be provided at the rate of 1,800. cubic feet per 
hour per person; provided the air in every public part of the 
building shall be changed at least twice each hour. 


Section 100. Toilet Rooms 
Every apartment shall have a water closet in a bathroom or 
separate compartment. 
All other buildings of this classification shall have at least 
one water-closet for every 15 rooms or fraction thereof. 
(See also Sections 39 and 101). 


Section 101. Water Supply 
In every building of this classification where city water sup- 
ply is available or can be made available, there shall be at least 
one proper sink or washbowl with running water. In apart- 
ment houses there shall be such a sink or washbowl in each 
apartment. 
Section 102. Repairs 
Every building of this classification, and all the parts there- 
of shall be kept in good repair and the roof shall be kept so as 
not to leak and all rain water shall be so drained and conveyed 
therefrom as not to cause dampness in the walls or ceilings. 


Section 103. Cleanliness 
Every building shall be kept clean and shall also be kept free 
from any accumulation of dirt, filth, rubbish, garbage, or other 
matter in or on the same or in the yards, courts, passageways, 
areas or alleys connected with or belonging to the same. 


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Section 104. Standpipes and Fire Extinguishers 

(For exterior standpipes see Section 22). 

Standard interior standpipes (Section 25) shall be provided in 
every building which is more than two stories high and accom- 
modates 20 or more transients and in all hospitals, asylums and 
other places of detention. Not more than 75 feet of hose (Sec- 
tion 25) shall be attached to each standpipe at each floor level. 
The number and location of interior standpipes shall be such 
that the hose will reach at least two feet inside of each room. 


In the above buildings where adequate water supply is not 
available, and in buildings accommodating less than 20 transi- 
ents where interior standpipes are not provided, a standard 
fire extinguisher (Section 25) shall be placed on each floor at 
the head of each stairway and at each elevator or group of ele- 
-vators. 

Section 105. Fire Alarm 

In every building which accommodates 20 or more transients, 
there shall be a proper alafm or gongs which can be operated 
from any story and can be heard throughout the building. 
Every such alarm system shall be tested at least once every 
week. . 

Section 106. Directions for Escape 

In every room liable to be used by transients a notice shall be 
conspicuously posted giving complete and plain directions for 
reaching at least two exits. 


Section 107. Special Regulations For Dwelling Houses 

Previous sections in this Part (Part VIII) contain various 
provisions relating to dwelling houses. Section 44 contains 
regulations applicable to masonry walls in dwellings and other 
buildings. Section 45 contains regulations governing concrete 
walls in general, but without specific reference to dwellings. 
The following paragraphs of this section, which will govern the 
use of concrete construction in dwellings in the city of Wau- 
kegan are taken verbatim from “Recommended Minimum Re- 
quirements for Small Dwelling Construction, commonly called — 
the Hoover Building Code” published in January, 1923 by the 
U. S. Department of Commerce. 


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Monolithic Concrete Dwellings. Monolithic concrete construc- 
tion containing not more than 2/10 of 1 per cent of reinforce- 
ment shall be classed as plain concrete. Solid bearing walls 
shall be at least six inches thick. 


Reinforcement not less than 2/10 of 1 per cent, computed on 
a vertical height of 12 inches, shall.be placed over all wall open- 
ings and at corners of the structure to prevent cracks. Floor 
and roof connection details shall be designed to transmit safely 
the vertical and horizontal loads imposed. 


Hollow monolithic walls shall have not less than six inches ag- 
gregate thickness of material. Wall openings and corners shall 
be reinforced in the same manner as solid monolithic walls. The 
inner and outer parts of such walls shall be securely braced 
and tied together with non-corrodible ties or other means to 
bring them into common action.. Where floor and roof systems 
are carried by such walls, provision shall be made:for the dis- 
tribution of these loads to all parts of the wall. , (Note. The 
non-corrodible ties specified in this. paragraph shall be as spe- 
cified in Section 45, in the third paragraph under the heading 
“Concrete Walls’). 


Unit Construction. Beereetc coner mes units for construction of 
dwellings shall be of sufficient strength, and where necessary 
shall be reinforced, to carry safely the loads imposed. Connec- 
tions between the several parts of such structures shall be suffi- 
ciently strong and rigid to resist the vertical and horizontal 
forces which may be imposed. 


Concrete Structural Frame with Enclosing Walls. Dwellings 
constructed with monolithic reinforced concrete frames cast in 
metal lath or other forms; and with inclosing walls of concrete 
plastered or shot on metal lath or of precast units carried by 
such frames; or having reinforced concrete bearing walls, shall 
be designed in accordance with standard methods of reinforced 
concrete design to carry safely the dead weight of the structure 
and the live loads which may be imposed. Inclosure or panel 
walls shall be of sufficient strength and rigidity to resist lateral 
forces and transmit them to the framework. 


Height of Concrete Exterior Walls. The height of exterior 
concrete walls of the minimum thickness specified in this section 
shall be not greater than 30 feet. Where gable construction is 
used an additional five feet is permitted to the peak of the gable. 


Floors, Floor Beams and Columns. Floors, beams and _col- 
umns shall be designed in accordance with standard methods to 
carry safely the loads imposed. 


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= PART IX 
Enforcement, Penalty, Validity 


Section 108. Enforcement of Ordinance. Penalty for Violation, 
Duties of Building Commissioner 


The Building Commissioner is hereby instructed and empow- 
ered to enforce this ordinance and to supervise the construction, 
reconstruction, alteration and moving of all buildings. 

Any and all persons who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate 
or fail to comply with any order or regulation made thereunder; 
or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of spe- 
cifications or -plans submitted and approved thereunder; or any 
certificate or permit issuéd thereunder; shall severally for every 
such violation and noncompliance respectively forfeit and pay a 
penalty in the sum of not less than Twenty Five Dollars 
($25.00), nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). The 
imposition of one penalty for any violation of this ordinance 
shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all 
such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such viola- 
tions or defects within a reasonable time; and when not other- 
wise specified each day that prohibited conditions are continued 
shall constitute a separate offense. 

The application of the above penalty shall not be held to pre- 
vent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions, as provided 
in this Ordinance. 


Section 109. Validity of Ordinance 
If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, sentence or pro- 
vision of this ordinance shall be adjudged by any Court of com- 
petent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not af- 
fect, impair, invalidate or nullify the remainder of this ordin- — 
ance, which shall remain in full force and effect. 


Section 110. Conflicting Ordinances Repealed 
‘ All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith 
are hereby repealed. 3 
Section 111. Date of Effect 
‘This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after 
its passage and publication as required by law. 
THEODORE H. DURST, Mayor. 
Presented and read July 31, A. D. 1924. 
Passed August 14, A. D. 1924. 
Signed August 18, A. D. 1924. 
Published August 23, A. D. 1924. 
Attest 4) oH Marseilles, City Clerk. 
“Approved August 14, A. i 1924. 
: ALBERT L. HALL, 
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WAUKEGAN ZONING 
ORDINANCE 


First Draft—May 10, 1924. 

AN ORDINANCE classifying, Tagine and restricting the 
locations of trades and industries and the location of buildings 
designed for specified uses; regulating and limiting the height 
and bulk of buildings hereafter erected or altered; regulating 
and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating 
and determining the area of yards, courts, and other open spaces 
within and surrounding such buildings; establishing the bound- 
aries of districts for the said purposes; and prescribing penal- 
ties for the violation of its provisions. 

For the purpose of establishing and carrying into effect, the 
several powers, duties and privileges conferred upon the ‘City 
of Waukegan, in, under and by an Act of the General Assembly 
of the State of Illinois, approved June 28, 1921, amended June 
30, 1928, and entitled: “‘An act to confer certain and additional 
powers upon City Councils in cities and Presidents and Boards 
of Trustees in villages and incorporated towns concerning build- 
ings and structures, the intensity of use of lot areas, the clas- 
sification of trades, industries, buildings and structures, with 
respect to location and regulation, the creation of districts of dif- 
ferent classes, and the establishment of regulations and restric- 
tions applicable thereto.” 


BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE 
CITY OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS. . 


Section 1. Definitions. 

For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms and words 
are defined as follows: 

Words used in the present tense include the future; words in 
the singular number include the plural number, and words in 
- the plural number include the singular number; the word “build- 
ing” includes the word “structure” and the word “lot” includes 
the word ‘‘plot.”’ 

Accessory Building: A subordinate building or portion of the 
main building which is located on the lot of the main building, 
and the use of which is clearly incidental to the use of the main 
building. 

Alley: A public thoroughfare not over twenty (20) feet wide. 

Basement Bay Windows: A story partly under ground, 
which, if not occupied for living purposes by other than the jani- 
tor or ‘his family, shall not be included as a story for the purpose 
of height measurements. 


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Block : That property abutting on one side of a street be- 
tween the two nearest intersecting streets, railroad rights of 
way, or other natural barriers. 

ing Houses: A building or premises where meals are 
served for ‘compensation for four or more persons but not ex- 
ceeding twenty. (20) persons. 


Building: “A structure having a roof supported by uprights 
or walls, ide ‘separated from every other building by at least a 
party wall. 


Building Area: The maximum horizontal projected area of a 
building, excluding open steps, terraces, and cornices projecting 
not more than thirty (80) inches. 

Classification of Use Districts shall be as follows: 

. “A” Residence Districts. 
“B” Residence Districts. 
“C”’ Residence Districts. 
Local Business Districts. 

. General Business Districts. 
. First Industrial Districts. 
. Second Industrial Districts. 

The uses permitted in “A” Residence Districts shall be the 
highest class, and the uses permitted in the Second Industrial 
Districts shall. be the lowest class. 

Corner Lot: A lot situated at the junction of and fronting 
on two or more streets, and having a width not greater than 
sixty-six (66) feet. 

Depth of Lot: The mean horizontal distance between the 
front and rear lot lines. 

Depth of Rear Yard: The mean horizontal distance between 
the rear line of the building and the center line of the alley, 
where an alley exists, otherwise the rear lot line. 

District: A’ section of the City of Waukegan for which the 
regulations governing the height, the area, or the use of build- 
ings and premises are the same. 

Family: Any number of individuals living and cooking 
together on the premises as a single housekeeping unit. 

Height of Building: The vertical distance measured from 
the curb level opposite the middle of the front of the building 
to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line for 
mansard roofs, and to the mean height level (between eaves and 


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ridge) for gable and hip roofs. Where a building is located upon 
a terrace or slope the height may be measured fr om the average 
ground level at the building wall. 


Height of Court or Yard: The vertical distance from the low- 
est level of such court or yard to the highest point of any bound- 
ing wall. 

Hotel: A building or premises where lodging is provided, 
with or without meals, for more than twenty persons. 

Inner Court: An unoccupied space surrounded on all sides by 
walls, or by walls and a lot line. 

Interior Lot: A lot other than a corner lot. 

Length of Outer Court: The mean horizontal distance be- 
tween the open and closed ends of the Court. 

Lodging House: A building or premises where lodging is 
provided for compensation for five or more persons but not ex- 
ceeding twenty persons. 

Lot: Land occupied or to be occupied by one building and 
accessory buildings and uses and including open spaces required 
under this ordinance. A lot may be land so recorded on the 
Records of the Recorder of Deeds of Lake County, Illinois. 

Lot Lines: The lines bounding a lot as defined herein. 

Non-conforming Use: A use of a building or premises that 
does not conform with the regulations of the use district in 
which it is situated. 

Outer Court: A open unoccupied space opening on a yard, 
street or alley. 

Private Garage: A garage intended for and used by not 
more than four motor vehicles, of which not more than one 
shall be a truck of more than 14 ton capacity, nor more than 
one story high. 

Public Garage: Any garage not included within the defini- 
tion of a private garage. 

Rear Yard: An open space unoccupied (except for accessory 
buildings and uses) on the same lot with a main building, be- 
tween the rear lines of the main building and the rear line of 
the lot, for the full width of the lot. 

Set Back: The minimum horizontal distance between the 
street wall of a building and the street line. 


Side Yard: _ An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a 
building between the building and the side line of the lot extend- 
ing through from the front building line to the rear yard or to 
the rear line of the lot, where no rear yard is required. 

Single Family Dwelling: A detached building having accom- 
modations for and occupied by one family only. 

Street Wall: The wall nearest to fronting on a street includ- 
ing sun parlors, bay windows and box porches but not including 
ground story porches or piazzas which are not to be enelosed 
thereafter. No ground story porches or piazzas not closed in 


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shall be wider than eight (8) feet, unless the street wall is moved 
back so that the front of the open ground porch or piazza does 
not extend closer to the street line than an open porch or piazza 
eight (8) feet wide. 

Two Family Dwelling: A building having accommodations 
for and occupied by not more than two families. 


Section 2. Use Regulations 

1. Use Districts: For the purpose of classifying, regulating 
and restricting the location of uses of land areas, and the location 
of buildings designed for specified uses, the City of Waukegan is 
hereby divided into seven classes of Use Districts: 

. “A” Residence Districts. 

. “B” Residence Districts. 

. “C” Residence Districts. 

. Local Business Districts. 

. General Business Districts. 

. First Industrial Districts. 

. second Industrial Districts 

as shown on the Use District Map hereto attached and expressly 
made a part of this ordinance, and Use Districts are hereby 
created in the City of Waukegan, Illinois, as the same are desig- 
nated on the Use District Map hereto attached. No building 
shall be erected, altered, or used, and no premises shall be used 
for any purpose except inconformity with all the regulations 
herein prescribed for the Use District in which such building or 
premises are located. 

2. “A” Residence Districts: In any “A” Residence District, 
except as hereinafter provided, no building or premises shall be 
used and no building shall be erected or altered except for one 
or more of the following uses: 

1. Single Family Dwellings. 

2. Schools and Colleges. 

3. Parks, Recreation Buildings, and Country Clubs not con- 
ducted as a business nor for profit. 

4, Farming, Truck Gardening and Nurseries. 

5. Temporary Uses and Buildings for Construction Purposes, 
for a period not to exceed one year. 


6. Accessory uses incident to the above uses, one garage for 
each lot, the garage not larger than to accommodate two motor 
vehicles of which none shall be trucks of more than !4 ton 
capacity, including private gardens, professional offices, home 
occupations and signs advertising premises for sale or rent, but 
not the conduct of any retail or wholesale business or manufac- 
ture. 

3. “B” Residence Districts: In any “B” Residence District, 
except as hereinafter provided, no building or premises shall be 
used and no building shall be erected or altered except for one 
or more of the following uses: 


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Any use permitted in “A” Residence Districts. 
. Two Family Dwellings. 
. Lodging and Boarding Houses. 
. Churches and Temples. 
. Libraries and Public Museums. 
. Institutions of an Educational, Philanthropic, or Eleemo- 
synary nature. 

7. No garage shall be erected on a lot which will accommodate 
more than three motor vehicles of which none shall be trucks 
of more than 14 ton capacity. 


4. “C” Residence Districts: In any ‘‘C’’ Residence District, 
except as hereinafter provided, no building or premises shall be 
used and no building shall be erected or altered except for one 
or more of the following uses: 

. Any use permitted in “‘A’. and “B” Residence Districts. 

. Apartment houses and Multiple dwellings. 

. Apartment hotels. 

Clubs and Fraternity houses. 

Hospitals. 

. Telephone Exchanges. 

Police and Fire Department Stations. 

. Public garages not accommodating trucks of more than 14 
ton ‘capacity. 


5. Local Business Districts: In any Local Business District, 
except as hereinafter provided, no building or premises shall be 
used and no building shall be erected or altered except for one 
or more of the following uses: 

. Any use permitted in the Residence Districts. 

. Amusement Places. 

. Auction Rooms. 

. Bakeries, employing not more than five (5) persons. 

Banks. 

. Barber Shops. 

. Battery Service Stations. 

Billboards and Signs. 

Catering Establishments. 

. Conservatories. 

11. Dancing Academies. 

12. Comfort Stations. 

18. Dressmaking Establishments. 

14. Dyeing and Cleaning Works, employing: not more than five 
(5) persons. 

15. Electric Repair Shops. 

16. Employment Agencies. 

17. Freight Stations. 

18. Gasoline and Oil Stations. 

19. Hotels. 

20. Laundries employing not more than five (5) persons. 


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21. Laboratories. 
22. Locksmith Shops. 
23. Lodge Halls. 
24. Messenger or Telegraph Service Stations. 
25. Millinery Shops. 
26. Offices. 
27. Painting and Decorating Shops. 
28. Photograph Galleries. 
29. Plumbing Shops. 
30. Post Offices. 
31. Printing Shops. 
32. Public Garages. 
33. Public Service Sub-stations. 
34. Recreation Buildings and Structures. 
35. Restaurants. 
36. Roofing or Plastering Shops. 
37. Sales or Show Rooms. 
38. Sharpening or Grinding Shops. 
39. Stores and Shops for the conduct of Retail Business. 
40. Shoe Repairing Shops. 
41. Studios. 
42. Tailor Shops employing not more than five (5) persons. 
43. Tinsmithing Shops. 
44. Tire Repairing Shops. 
45. Undertaking Establishments. 
46. Upholstering Shops. 


Any building primarily used for any of the above enumerated 
uses may have not more than forty (40) per cent of the floor 
area devoted to industry or storage purposes incidental to such 
primary use; provided that not more than five (5) employees 
shall be engaged at any time on the premises in any such inci- 
dental use. 


6. General Business Districts. In any General Business Dis- 
trict, except as hereinafter provided, no building or premises 
shall be used, and no building shall be erected or altered for any 
of the following specified trades, industries, or uses: 

1. Coal, Coke, Lumber, Wood or Building Material Storage 
Yard. 

2. Carting, Express, Hauling or Storage Yard. 

3. Contractor’s Plant or Storage Yard. 


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4. Storage, Bailing, Packing or Treatment of Scrap Paper, 
Iron, Bottles, Rags, or Junk. 

5. Brass, Copper, Iron or Steel Works or Foundry. 

6. Electrical Central Station Power Plant. 

7.-Gas Manufacture, or Storage in excess of 10,000 cu. ft. 

8. Planing Mill or Saw Mill. 

9. Railroad Yards or Round Houses. 
10. Stone Yards or Monument Works. 


11. Any manufacture or treatment whatsoever, except such 
light manufactures as are carried on within entirely enclosed 
buildings and which create no objectionable noise, odor, smoke, 
fumes, vapor, dust or gas. Nothing in this section shall be 
deemed to exclude a newspaper or printing establishment, a car 
barn, or an electric sub-station from a General Business District. 

No use permitted in a residence district shall be excluded 
from a General Business District. 


7. First Industrial Districts. In any First Industrial Dis- 
trict, except as hereinafter provided, no building or premises 
shall be used, and no building shall be erected or altered for any 
of the following specified trades, industries or uses: 


1. Abattoirs. 
2. Acetylene Gas Manufacture. 
3. Acid Manufacture. 
4. Ammonia, Bleaching Powder or Chlorine Manufacture. 
5. Arsenal. 
6. Asphalt Manufacture or Refining. 
7. Blast Furnace. 
8. Boiler Works. 
9. Brick, Tile or Terra Cotta Manufacture. 
10. Candle Manufacture. 
11. Celluloid Manufacture or Treatment. 
12. Coke Ovens. 
13. Crematory. 
14. Creosote Treatment or Manufacture. 
15. Disinfectant, Insecticide or Poison Manufacture. 
16. Distillation of Bones, Coal, or Wood. 
17. Dyestuff Manufacture. 
18. Emery Cloth and Sand Paper Manufacture. 
19. Fat Rendering. 
20. Fertilizer Manufacture. 
21. Fish Smoking and Curing. 
22. Forge Plants. 
238. Gas (illuminating or heating) Manufacture. » 
24. Glue Size or Gelatine Manufacture. 
25. Gunpowder Manufacture or Storage. 
26. Fireworks or Explosive Manufacture or Storage. 
27. Incineration or Reduction of Garbage, Dead Animals, Offal 
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28. Iron, Steel, Brass, or Copper Works or Foundries. 

29. Lamp Black Manufacture. 

30. Lime, Cement or Plaster of Paris Manufacture. 

31. Oil Cloth or Linoleum Manufacture. 

32. Oiled Rubber or Leather Goods Manufacture. 

33. Ore Reduction. | 

34. Paint, Oil Shellac, Turpentine or Varnish Manufacture. 

35. Paper or Pulp Manufacture. 

36. Petroleum Refining or Storage. 

37. Potash Works. . 

38. Printing Ink Manufacture. 

39. Pyrolin Manufacture or the Manufacture of Articles there- 
from. 

40. Round House. 

41. Rock Crusher. 

42. Rolling Mill. 

43. Rubber, Caoutchouc or Gutta Percha Manufacture or Treat- 
ment. 

44. Salt Works. 

45. Sauerkraut, Sausage or Bologna Manufacture. 

46. Ship Yard. ; 

47. Shoe Blacking Manufacture. 

48. Smelters. 

49. Soda and Compound Manufacture. 

50. Stock Yards. 

51. Stone Mill or Quarry. 

52. Stove Polish Manufacture. 

53. Sulphuric, Nitric, Hydrochloric or Picric Acid Manufacture. 

54. Tallow, Grease, or Lard Manufacture or Refining. 

56. Tar Distillation or Manufacture. 

57. Tar Roofing or Waterproofing Manufacture. 

58. Tobacco (chewing) Manufacture or Treatment. 

59. Vinegar Manufacture. 

60. Wool Pulling or Scouring. 

61. Yeast Plant. 


62. And in general those uses which have been declared a nui- 
sance in any court of record or which may be obnoxious or of- 
fensive by reason of the emission of odor, vapor, dust, smoke, 
gas or noise. 


8. Second Industrial District. In any Second Industrial Dis- 
tricts any premises or building may be used for any purposes 
whatsoever, provided the present or hereafter adopted ordin- 
ances of the City of Waukegan, including the ordinances, regu- 
lating the erection and operation of nuisances, are complied with. 


9. Non-Conforming Uses. The lawful use of a building or 
premises existing at the time of the adoption of this ordinance 
may be continued, although such use does not conform with the 
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building. A non-conforming use may be changed to a use of the 
same or higher classification according to the provisions of this 
ordinance. Whenever a District shall be hereafter changed, any 
then existing non-conforming use in such changed district may 
be continued or changed to a use of a similar or higher classifi- 
cation, provided all other regulations governing the new use are 
complied with. Whenever a non-conforming use of a building or 
premises has been discontinued, or changed to a higher classifi- 
cation or to a conforming use, such use shall not thereatter be 
changed to a use of a lower classification. 


Section 3. Area Regulations 


1. Area Districts. For the purpose of regulating and limit- 
ing the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected or altered, 
regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and 
regulating and determining the areas of yards, courts, and other 
open spaces within and surrounding such buildings, the City of 
Waukegan, Illinois, is divided into four classes of Ar ea Districts : 

1. “A” Area Districts. 

2. -B. Ares “DIStEICtS: 

H “C” Area Districts. 

“D” Area Districts 
as ane on the Area District Map attached hereto and express- 
ly made a part of this ordinance, and Area Districts are hereby 
created in the City of Waukegan, Illinois, as the same are desig- 
nated on the Area District Map hereto attached. No building 
shall be erected, altered, or used, and no premises shall be used 
except in conformity with all the regulations herein prescribed 
for the Area District in which such building or premises are 
located. 
“A” Area Districts: 


(a) Building Area: No building with its accessory building 
shall be erected or altered so as to occupy more than forty-five 
per cent of the area of a corner lot nor more than thirty-five 
per cent of the area of an interior lot. 


(“b’?) Number of Families Housed: No dwelling shall here- 
after be erected or altered to accommodate or make provision for 
more than seven families on any acre of land or more than a 
proportional number of families on a fractional part of any acre 
of land. The maximum number of families which may here- 
after be housed on any plot of ground shall not exceed the in- 
tegral number obtained by multiplying the acreage of such plot 
by seven. The limitations imposed by this section shall, how- 
ever, not prohibit the use for a single family dwelling of any lot 
duly recorded at the time of the passage of this ordinance and 
containing an area of less than one-seventh of an acre. | 

(c) Rear Yards: Every building shall have a rear yard, the 
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depth of the lot nor less than fifteen feet in any case, but it need 
not exceed twenty-five feet in any case. 


(d) Side Yards: Two side yards shall be provided on every 
lot. The width of each side yard shall not be less than six feet. 
The sum of the widths of the two side yards shall in no case be 
less than twenty per cent of the width of the lot. 


(e) Inner Courts: The least dimension of an inner court at 
its lowest level shall be not less than ten feet. In no case shall 
such least dimension be less than one-third the height of the 
building. The minimum area of an inner court shall not be less 
than twice the square of its required least dimension. 


(f) Outer Courts: The least dimension of an outer court at 
its lowest level shall be not less than ten feet. In no case shall - 
such least dimension be less than one-third the height of the 
building. 

3. “B” Area Districts: 


(a) Building Area: No building with its accessory build- 
ings shall be erected or altered so as to occupy more than fifty 
per cent of the area of an interior lot nor more than sixty per 
cent of the area of a corner lot. 


(b) Number of Families Housed: No building or series of 
buildings shall hereafter be erected or altered to accommodate 
or make provision for more than twenty families on any acre 
of land nor more than a proportional number of families on a 
fractional part of any acre of land. The maximum number of 
families which may hereafter be housed on any plot of ground 
shall not exceed the integral number obtained by multiplying the 
acreage of such plot by twenty. 


{c) Rear Yards: Every building shall have a rear yard the 
depth of which shall be not less than fifteen per cent of the depth 
of the lot nor less than ten feet in any case, but it need not ex- 
ceed twenty feet in any case. 


(d) Side Yards: ‘Two side yards shall be provided on every 
lot and the width of any side yard shall be not less than one-— 
tenth the width of the lot nor less than one-eighth the height 
of the building. 


(e) Inner Courts: The least dimension of an outer court 
at its lowest level shall not be less than eight feet. In no case 
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the building. The minimum area of an inner court shall be not 
less than twice the square of its required least dimension. 


(f) Outer Courts: The least dimension of an outer court at 
its lowest level shall be not less than eight feet. In no case shall 
such least dimension be less than one-fourth the height of the 
building. | 

4, “C” Area Districts: 


(a) Building Area: No building with its accessory build- 
ings shall occupy more than seventy-five per cent of the area of 
an interior lot nor more than eighty-five per cent of the area of a 
corner lot, provided that for buildings arranged, designed and 
used for industrial purposes only those area regulations shall 
be applied at the sill level of the second story windows but not 
more than twenty feet above the curb level. 

(b) Number of Families Housed: No dwelling, apartment, 
or apartment house shall hereafter be erected or altered to ac- 
commodate or make provision for more than fifty families on any 
acre of land nor more than a proportional number of families on 
a fractional part of any acre of land. The maximum number of 
families which may hereafter be housed on any plot of ground 
shall not exceed the integral number obtained by multiplying 
the acreage of such plot by fifty. 

(c) Rear Yards: Every building shall have a rear yard the 
depth of which shall be not less than ten per cent of the depth 
of the lot nor less than ten feet in any case, but it need not ex- 
ceed fifteen feet in any case. 

(d) Side Yards: No side yard wherever provided shall be 
less than four feet wide nor less in width than one-tenth the 
height of the building. 

(e) Outer Courts: The least dimension of an outer court 
at its lowest level shall be not less than six feet. In no case 
i ae least dimension be less than one sixth of the building 
height. | 

(f) Inner Courts: The least dimension of an inner court at 
its lowest level shall be not less than six feet. In no case shall 
such least dimension be less than one-fifth the height of the 
building. The minimum area of an inner court shall be not less 
than twice the square of its required least dimension. 


5. “D”Area Districts: 


No building or part of a building shall be erected or altered 
for residential purposes except in conformity with the area reg- 
ulations prescribed for “C’” Area Districts, provided, however, 
that the limitations relating to the per cent of lot area which 
buildings may occupy, and the size of courts and yards required, 
shall be applied at the sill level of the second story windows, 
but not more than twenty feet above the curb level. The regu- 
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shall be deemed to apply only to buildings used exclusively for 
some purpose other than that of a dwelling or an apartment 
house. 

(a) Building Area: No building with its accessory build- 
ings shall occupy at the sill level of, the second story windows 
not higher than twenty feet above the curb level, more than 
ninety per cent of the area of an interior lot. A building sit- 
uated on a corner lot may occupy the entire lot. 


(b) Rear Yards: Every building other than one situated 
on a corner lot shall have a rear yard, the depth of which at 
the sill level of the second story windows but not more than 
twenty feet above the curb level, shall be not less than ten per 
cent of the depth of the lot. The rear yard at such level need 
not, however, exceed ten feet on lots more than one hundred 
feet deep. But in no case shall such least dimension be less than 
one-tenth of the height of the building. 


(c) Side Yards: Wherever a side yard is provided, its 
width at its lowest level shall be not less than three feet nor 
less than one-twelfth the height of the building. 


(d) Inner Courts: The least dimension of an inner court at 
its lowest level shall be not less than six feet. In no case:shall 
such least dimension be less than one sixth the height of the 
building. The minimum area of an inner court shall be not Jess 
than twice the square of its required least dimension. 


(e) Outer Courts: The least dimension of an outer court at 
its lowest level shall be not less than five feet. In no case shall 
such least dimension be less than one-eighth the height of the 
building. 

6. Building Line Set Back: 


No building shall be erected or altered in an “A” Residence 
District so as to place its street wall nearer than thirty feet from 
the street line; no building shall be erected or altered in a “B” 
Residence District so as to place its street wall nearer than 
twenty feet from the street line; and no building shall be erected 
or altered in a “C’”’ Residence District so as to place its street 
wall nearer than ten feet from the street line; provided that: 

(a) Where a block is occupied or partially occupied by per- 
manent buildings which existed in the block at the time of the 
passage of this ordinance, the average of the distances of the 
street walls of such buildings from the street line, shall be the | 
established building line, but no future building in a “B” resi- 
dence District shall be required to set back more than twenty 
feet, nor in any “‘C” Residence District more than fifteen feet. 

(b) Where a lot on which a building line set back is required 
adjoins a lot where a smaller set back or no set back is required, 
the buildings on first mentioned lot, for a distance of not more 
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observe only one-half the set back that would otherwise be re- 
quired for first mentioned lot. 

(c) Where the rear line of any lot forms part of the front 
half of the side line of an adjacent lot, such adjacent lot shall 
be required to observe a set back of only one-half the established 
set back of the remaining lots fronting on the same street with 
it in the same block, but this set back shall not be required to 
be greater than ten feet in any case. 

(d) Where the continuation of the front line of one or more 
lots, as defined herein, located in any ‘‘Business” or “Industrial’’ 
district forms the front line of one or more lots located in any 
“A”, “B”, or “C” Residential district in the same block, any 
buildings constructed, replaced, altered, or moved on first said 
lot or lots, shall conform to the building line set back required 
for the residential lots, but such set back shall not be required 
to be more than twenty feet in any case. 

(e) Where owners of all properties in a block petition in 
writing for the establishment of a building line within that 
block, which building line differs from that which would other- 
wise be established by the provisions of the section, the Board 
of Appeals may, after due notice and hearings, recommend to 
the Council the adoption of the building line proposed by the 
petitioners. 

7. Area District Exceptions and Regulations: 


The foregoing requirements in the area districts shall be sub- 
ject to the following exceptions and regulations: 

(a) For purposes of the area regulations a semi-detached 
dwelling, group house, or row house in a “B” or “C” Residence 
Teka may be considered as one building and occupying one 
ot. 

(b) Buildings on through lots and running through from 
street to street may waive the requirements for a rear yard 
when complying with the percentage of lot occupancy by furnish- 
ing other open spaces in lieu of such required rear yard. 

(c) In computing the depth of a rear yard or the width of 
a side yard or open court for any buildings where such yard or 
court opens on to an alley or street, one-half of such alley or 
street may be assumed to be a portion of the yard or court, ex- 
cept that in “A” and “B” Area Districts every corner lot shall 
maintain a side yard in conformity with the side yard require- 
ments for those districts. 


(d) Every part of a required yard or court shall be opened 
from its lowest point to the sky unobstructed, except for the 
projections of sill, belf courses, cornices and ornamental features 
not to exceed twelve (12) inches. 

(e) Open or lattice enclosed fire escapes, fireproof outside 
stairways and solid floored balconies opening upon fire towers, 
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not more than three and one-half (314) feet, and the ordinary 
projections of chimneys and flues shall be permitted where same 
are so placed as not to obstruct the light and ventilation. 

(f) No yard, court, or other open space, provided about any 
building for the purpose of eomplying with the provisions of 
these regulations shall again be used as a yard, court, or other 
open space for another building. 

(zg) In “A” and “B” residence Districts no accessory building 
shall be located within ten feet of its rear or side lot line where 
either such line forms part of the front half of the side line of 
an adjacent lot, but the foregoing shall not prohibit the erection 
of an accessory building fifty feet or more from any street 
bounding the block. 

Section 4. Height Regulations: 

Height Districts: For the purpose of regulating and limiting 
the height of buildings hereafter erected or altered, the City of 
Waukegan, Illinois, is hereby divided into five classes of Height 
Districts: 

1. “A” Height Districts, 35 feet, 

2. “B” Height Districts, 45 feet, 

3. “C” Height Districts, 60 feet, 

4. “D” Height Districts, 100 feet, as shown on the Height 
District Map attached hereto and expressly made a part of this 
‘ordinance, and height districts are hereby created in the City 
of Waukegan, Illinois, as the same are designated on the Height 
District Map hereto attached. No building shall be erected, al- 
tered or used, and no premises shall be used for any purpose ex- 
cept in conformity with all the regulations herein prescribed — 
for the Height District in which such building or premises are 
located. 

1. “A” Height Districts. In “A” Height Districts no build- 
ing shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of thirty- 
five (35) feet, or two and a half stories. 

2. “B” Height Districts: In ‘“B” Height Districts no build- 
ing shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of forty-five 
feet, or three stories. 

3. “C” Height Districts: In ‘‘C” Height Districts no build- 
ing shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of sixty feet, 
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4. “D” Height Districts: In “D” Height Districts no build- 
ing shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of one hun- 
dred feet or eight stories, but every building over six stories in 
height shall, above the floor line of the seventh story, have its 
outer walls set back at a ratio of one foot set back for each two 
feet of rise. 


5. Height Districts Exceptions: 


The foregoing requirements in the height regulations shall be 
subject to the following exceptions: 

(a) Public or semi-public buildings, churches, hospitals, 
sanitariums, or schools in “A” or “B” Height Districts may be 
erected to a height not exceeding sixty (60) feet, provided they 
are set back from each property line at least one foot for each 
foot of additional building height above the limit for the dis- 
trict in which they are located. 


(b) Dwellings in the “A” Height Districts may be increased 
in height by not more than ten (10) feet when two (2) side 
yards of not less than fifteen (15) feet each are provided. Such 
dwellings, however, shall not exceed three (3) stories in height. 

(c) Chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire tow- 
ers, monuments, pent houses, stacks, stage towers or scenery 
lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers and spires, wire- 
less towers, or necessary mechanical appurtenances may be 
erected to any height in accordance with other existing or 
hereafter adopted ordinances of the City of Waukegan. 


Section 5. Boundaries of Districts. 


Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of 
the various districts as shown on the maps accompanying and 
made a part of this ordinance the following rules shall apply: 


(a) The district boundaries are either streets or alleys, un- 
less otherwise shown, and where the designation on the maps ac- 
companying and made a part of this ordinance indicating the 
various districts, are approximately bounded by street or alley 
line, said street or alley shall be construed to be the boundary of 
such district. 


(b) Where the district boundaries are not otherwise indi- 
cated and where the property has been or may hereafter be 
divided into blocks and lots, the district boundaries shall be con- 
strued to be lot lines, and where the designation on the maps 
accompanying and made a part of this ordinance indicating the 
various districts are approximately bounded by lot lines, said 
lot lines shall be construed to be the boundary of such district, 
unless said boundaries are otherwise indicated on the maps. 

(c) In subdivided property, the district boundary lines on 
the maps accompanying and made a part of this ordinance, shall 
be determined by use of the scale contained in such maps. 


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Section 6. Plats. 3 
Each application for a building permit shall be accompanied by 
a plat in duplicate drawn to scale showing the actual dimensions 
of the lot to be built upon, the size of the building to be erected, 
the setback of existing buildings in the block and all other in- 
formation that may be necessary to provide for the enforce- 
ment of this ordinance. A record of such applications and plans 
shall be kept in the office of the Building Commissioner. Where 
application is made to enlarge an existing non conforming use, 
the application shall be accompanied by an affidavit giving the 
description of the premises owned at the date of the passage of 
this ordinance. 
Section 7. Occupancy Permits. 


No land shail be occupied or used and no building hereafter 
erected or altered shall be occupied or used in whole or in part 
for any purpose whatsoever until a certificate of occupancy shall 
have been issued by the Building Commissioner stating that the 
building and premises comply with all the building and health 
laws and ordinances of the City of Waukegan and with the pro- 
visions of this ordinance and amendments hereafter duly 
enacted. 


No change of use shall be made in any premises or building or 
part thereof now or hereafter erected or altered that is not con- 
sistent with the provisions of these regulations, and no change 
shall be made in the use of a building or premises without a 
permit having first been issued by the Building Commissioner, 
and no permit shall be issued to make such a change unless it is 
in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance and amend- 
ments thereto hereafter duly enacted. 


Certificates for occupancy and compliance shall be applied for 
at the same time with the application for a building permit and 
shall be issued within ten (10) days after the erection or altera- 
tion of such buildings shall have been lawfully completed. A 
record of all certificates shall be kept on file in the office of the 
Building Commissioner, and copies shall be furnished on request 
to any persons having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the 
building affected. A fee of two dollars shall be charged for each 
original certificate and one dollar for each copy thereof. 


Section 8. Interpretation; Purpose. 


In interpreting and applying the provisions of this ordinance, 
they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the pro- 
motion of the public safety, health, convenience, comfort, pros- 
perity and general welfare. It is not intended by this ordinance 
to interfere with or abrogate or annul any ordinances, rules, 
regulations or permits previously adopted or issued, or which | 
shall be adopted or issued, and which are not in conflict with 
any of the provisions of this ordinance; nor is it intended by 


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this ordinance to interfere with or abrogate or annul any lawful 
easements, covenants, or other agreements between parties, pro- 
vided, however, that where this ordinance imposes a higher 
standard upon the use of buildings or premises or upon height of 
buildings, or requires larger open spaces than are imposed or 
required by such ordinances, rules, regulations or permits, or 
by easements, covenants, or agreements the provision of this 
ordinance shall control. 


Section 9. Board of Appeals 


Creation and Membership: A board of Appeals is hereby 
authorized to be established. The word ‘Board’ when used in 
this section shall be construed to mean the Board of Appeals. 
The said Board shall consist of five (5) members appointed by 
the Mayor of the City and subject to confirmation by the City 
Commission. One of said members shall be by the Mayor 
designated as Chairman of said Board and shall hold his office 
for a period of five years and until his successor is appointed 
and qualified. The other members shall be by the Mayor desig- 
nated to hold office for periods of four years, three years, two 
years and one year respectively, and until their successors are 
appointed and qualified. At the expiration of the respective 
terms of office hereby created, and thereafter, the members of 
said Board shall be appointed in the manner hereinabove set 
forth for a term of five years each and until their respective suc- 
cessors are duly appointed and qualified. All of the members 
of said Board shall serve without compensation, and they shall 
be subject to removal by the Mayor and City Commission, but 
only for cause and after public hearing. 

Meetings: All meetings of the Board of Appeals shall be held 
at the call of the Chairman and at such other times as such 
Board may determine. Such Chairman, or in his absence the 
Acting Chairman, may administer oaths and compel the attend- 
ance of witnesses. All meetings of such Board shall be open to 
the public. Such Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, 
showing the vote of each member upon every question, or if 
absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall also 
keep records of its examinations and other official actions. Every 
rule, regulation, every amendment or repeal thereof and every 
order, requirement, decision or determination of the Board shall 
immediately be filed in the office of the Board and shall be a 
public record. 

Duties: Such Board of Appeals shall hear and decide appeals 
from and review any order, requirements, decision or determina- 
tion made by the Building Commissioner pursuant to this or- 
dinance. It shall also hear and decide all matters referred to it 
or upon which it is required to pass under this ordinance. The 
concurring vote of four members of the Board shall be necessary 


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to reverse any order, requirement, decision or determination of 
the Building Commissioner, or to decide in favor of the appli- 
~ eant any matter upon which it is required to pass or to effect any 
variation in the ordinance. Such an appeal may be taken by any 
person aggrieved or by an officer, department, board or bureau 
of the municipality. Such appeal shall be taken within such time 
as shall be prescribed by the Board of Appeals by general rule, 
filing with the Building Commissioner and with the Board of 
Appeals a notice of appeal, specifying the grounds thereof. The 
Building Commissioner shall forthwith transmit to the Board of 
Appeals ‘all the papers constituting the records upon which the 
action appealed from was taken. 


Powers: (1) The Board of Appeals shall fix a reasonable 
time for the hearing of the appeal and give due notice thereof to 
the parties and decide the same within a reasonable time. Upon 
the hearing, any party may appear in person or by agent or by 
attorney. The Board of Appeals may reverse or affirm, partly 
or wholly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision or 
determination as in its opinion ought to be made in the premises, 
and to that end shall have all the powers of the officer from 
whom the appeal is taken. Where there are practical difficul- 
ties or unnecessary hardship in the way of carrying out the 
strict letter of this ordinance, the Board of Appeals shall have 
the power in passing upon appeals, to vary or modify, the ap- 
plication of any of the regulations or provisions of this ordin- 
ance relating to the use, construction, or alteration of buildings 
or structure or the use of land, so that the spirit of the ordin- 
ance shall be observed, public safety and welfare secured, and 
substantial justice done. 


(2) The Board shall have the power to recommend to the 
City Commission such changes in the District boundaries or 
regulations as it may deem necessary or desirable, as more par- 
ticularly set forth in Section 10 of this ordinance. 


(8) The Board may from time to time adopt such rules and 
regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry into effect the 
provisions of this ordinance. 


(4) The Board shall have the power to call on any of the 
other city departments for assistance as may be reasonably re- 
quired. 


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Section 10. Changes and Amendments. 

The regulations imposed and the Districts created by this or- 
dinance may be amended from time to time by ordinance, but no 
such amendments shall be made without a hearing before the 
Board of Appeals which is hereby designated as a Special Com- 
mission for this purpose. 


The Board of Appeals may of its own motion, or upon petition 
signed by one or more property owners of any District or por- 
tion thereof, or upon instruction from the City Commission, 
cause to be prepared a notice indicating the changes proposed 
to be made in the regulations or in the District boundary lines, 
describing the boundaries of the territory to be affected. Such 
notice shall state the time and place of the public hearing for 
consideration of such proposed amendment, supplement, or 
change and the place where maps of the propose& amendment, 
supplement or change will be accessible for examination by in- 
terested parties. 


Notice of such public hearing shall be published at least fifteen 
(15) days in advance thereof in at least one newspaper of gen- 
eral circulation in the City of Waukegan. After such public 
hearing the Board of Appeals shall report to the City Commis- 
sion on the proposed amendment, supplement, or change and 
may cause an ordinance authorizing such proposed amendment, 
supplement, or change to be introduced in the City Commission 
of the City of Wavkegan. Such hearing may be adjourned from 
time to time. Whenever a written protest against such pro- 
posed amendment, supplement, or change, signed and acknowl- 
edged by the owners of twenty (20) per cent of the frontage 
proposed to be altered or by the owners of 20 per cent of the 
frontage immediately adjoining in the same block or in the block 
back of or across an alley therefrom, or by the owners of twenty 
(20) per cent of the frontage in the block directly opposite the 
frontage proposed to be altered, shall have been filed with the 
Clerk of the City within thirty days after said public hearing, 
the ordinance providing for such proposed amendment, supple- 
ment, or change shall not be passed except by the favorable vote 
of the two-thirds of the members of the City Commission. 


Section 11. Completion of Buildings under Existing Permits. 


Nothing herein contained shall require any change in the 
plans, construction or designated use of a building for which a 
building permit has been heretofore issued, or complete plans for 
which are on file with the Commissioner at the time of the pas- 
sage of this ordinance, and a permit for the erection of which is 
issued within one month of the passage of this ordinance, and 
the construction of which, in either case shall have been dili- 
gently prosecuted within six months of the date of such permit, 
and which entire building shall have been completed according 


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to plans as filed within one year from the date of the passage 
of this ordinance. 


Section 12. Violation, Penalty, Enforcement. 


Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys, omits, 
neglects or refuses to comply with, or who resists the enforce- 
ment of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon con- 
viction, be fined not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than 
one hundred (100) dollars for each offense and each day that a 
violation shall continue shall constitute a separate effense. 


Section 13. Validity of Ordinance. 

All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are 
herewith repealed. If any section, paragraph, subdivision, 
clause or provision of this ordinance shall be invalid, such in- 
validity shall apply only to the section, paragraph, subdivision, 
clause or provision so invalid, and the remainder of this ordin- 
ance shall be valid and effective. 


Section 14. When Effective. 
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after 
its passage and publication in accordance with the law. 


THEO: HH: DURSE 
Mayor. 

Presented and read July 31st, A. D. 1924. 

Passed Aug. 14th, A.. D. 1924. 

Signed Aug. 15th, A. D. 1924. 

Published Aug. 16th, A. D. 1924. 

Attest: J. H. MARSEILLES, City Clerk. 
Approved July 31st, A. D. 1924. 


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ORDINANCE 


An Ordinance Amending Chapter 45 of the 
Revised Ordinances of the City of Waukegan, 
Passed September 25th, A. D. 1905 and 
Published October 24th, A. D. 1905 


Be It Ordained by the City Council 
of the City of Waukegan: 


Section 1. That Chapter 45 of the Revised Ordinances of the 
City of Waukegan, passed September 25th, A. D. 1905 and pub- 
lished October 24th, A. D. 1905, be amended so as to read as 
follows: | 

Section 2. Board of Examiners Created. There is hereby 
created a board of examiners of plumbers, consisting of three 
members, one of whom shall be the City Physician of said city, 
who shall be ex-officio chairman of said Board of Examiners, a 
second member who shall be a master plumber, and a third mem- 
ber who shall be a journeyman plumber. Said second and third 
members shall be appointed by the City Council, and they shall 
hold their office for the term of one year from the first day of 
May in the year of their appointment, and until their successors 
are duly appointed. One of the members of the board appointed 
by the City Council shall be chosen by said board as secretary, 
and it shall be unlawful for any member of said board of ex- 
aminers to sell or be interested in the sale of any material to 
be used in the examination of plumbers. 


Section 3. Meetings of Board—Examination—Fees. Said 
Board of Examiners shall from time to time meet and designate 
the time and places for the examination of all applicants desiring 
to engage in or work at the business of plumbing within the jur- 
isdiction of said board, and shall examine said applicants as to 
their practical knowledge of plumbing, house drainage and 
plumbing ventilation, and if satisfied of the competency of such 
applicant, shall thereupon issue a certificate to such applicant au- 
thorizing him to engage in or work at the business of plumbing, 
as master plumber, employing plumber or journeyman plumber 
as the case may be. The fees fora certificate for a master 
plumber or employing plumber shall be fifty ($50.00) dollars, 
and for a journeyman plumber one ($1.00) dollar, which shall 
be paid to the City Collector for the use of said City, as other 
moneys by him collected; and an annual renewal fee of ten 
($10.00) dollars for each master or employing plumber, and one 


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($1.00) dollar for each journeyman plumber shall be paid in 
advance. 


Section 4. Certificate Necessary—Listing Same. No person 
shall engage in or work at the business of plumbing in said city, 
either as a master plumber or employing plumber, or as a jour- 
neyman plumber, unless he shall have made application to, taken 
an examination before and received a certificate from said board 
of examiners, or some other like lawfully constituted board of 
examiners within the State of Illinois, which said certificate 
shall be listed with and a full and complete record kept by the 
City Clerk. Said record shall show the name of the person to 
whom such certificate has been issued, whether as a master or 
employing plumber, or as a journeyman plumber, the date of 
issuing same and by what board of examiners issued; also the 
date of revocation thereof, if the same shall have been revoked, 
and shall be open at all reasonable times to public inspection. 


Section 5. Permit for Work Necessary—Bond. No plumbing 
work of any kind, except the repairing of leaks within buildings 
shall hereafter be done within said city, without a permit being 
first issued therefore by the City Clerk. And no such permit 
shall be issued by said Clerk unless the person applying there- 
fore shall have filed within a year preceding such application, 
in the office of the City Clerk, a bond in the sum of one thousand 
dollars, with sureties, to be approved by the City Council con- 
ditioned, among other things, that the applicant will indemnify 
and save harmless the City of Waukegan from all accidents and 
damages arising from any negligence or unskillfulness in the 
execution or protection of his work, or from any unfaithful or 
inadequate work done under or by virtue of any permit that may 
be issued to him by the City Clerk of said City, and that he 
will also, if required by the proper Commissioner, restore the 
streets, sidewalks and pavements over any pipe he may lay, 
and fill all excavations made by him, so as to leave said streets, 
sidewalks and pavements in as good state and condition as he 
found them, and will keep and maintain the same in good order 
for a reasonable time thereafter, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
missioner of Public Works; and further conditioned that he will 
pay all fines that may be imposed upon him for a violation of any 
ordinance, rule or regulation adopted by the City Council or 
department of public works relating thereto, and that he will 


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conform to all the lawful regulations of the City pertaining to 
the business of plumbing, in accordance with the ordinances of 
the City and the rules and regulations of the Department of 
Health. 


Section 6. Doing Work Without Permit—Penalty. Any per- 
son who shall lay any water service pipe or introduce into or 
about any building or on any grounds, any water pipes, or do 
any plumbing work in any building or on any grounds, for the 
purpose of connecting such pipes or plumbing work with the 
pipes of the water works of the City of Waukegan, or of pre- 
paring them for such connections, with the view of having such 
premises supplied with water by the water works, or who shall 
make an addition to or alterations of any water pipe, bath, water 
closet, stop cock or other fixture or apparatus for the supplying 
of any premises with water without having first obtained a per- 
mit for doing such work from the City Clerk, shall be subject 
to a fine of not less than ten dollars and not exceeding one hun- 
dred dollars. 


Section 7. Change in Work—Permit Corrected. Whenever 
any material change is to be made in any plumbing work, be- 
yond that specified in the permit therefore, the plumber is here- 
by required to give previous notice to the Commissioner of Pub- 
lic Health and Safety, presenting the original permit for 
correction and record. 


Section 8. Permits To Be Returned—Report. All permits is- 
sued for any work to be done under the authority of this chapter 
Shall be returned to the Inspector within twenty-four hours after 
the work shall be completed who shall add a written statement 
of the facts and the time water was turned on for use. 


Section 9. Work Subject to Approval of Commissioners—De- 
fective Work To Be Made Good. All work done by plumbers 
shall be subject to the inspection, supervision and approval of 
the Inspector or Commissioner of Public Health and Safety, and 
all faulty and defective work which may at any time be discov- 
ered shall be made satisfactory to said Commissioner and no 
further permit shall be issued to the party in default under any 
of the provisions of this ordinance. 


Section 9-A. The general inspector who shall have charge of 
the inspection of plumbing shall have in addition to the certifi- 
cate of the Civil Service Commission, the qualifications required 
by the laws of Illinois for the conduct of the business of journey- 
man plumber. He shall be in no way connected with any firm 
or corporation in any capacity, or be interested financially with 
said parties in the business of plumbing or drain laying. 


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Rules and Regulations for the Materials, Construction, 
Alterations and Inspection of all Plumbing and 
Sewerage in the City of Waukegan 


Section 10. Materials—Quality. All materials used by any 
plumber in connection with any work done by him, or under any 
permit issued to him, as hereinbefore provided, must be of the 
best quality free from defects, and all work must be executed in 
a thorough workmanlike manner. 


Section 11. Excavation in Streets—How Made, Ete. In mak- 
ing excavations in streets, alleys or highways, for the laying of 
service pipes or making repairs or for any other purpose, the 
paving material and earth removed must be kept separate and 
deposited in a manner that will occasion the least inconvenience 
to the public, with provision for the passage of water along any 
gutter, and a safe passageway for foot travel. 

Section 12. Lead Pipe—Quality and Weight. No lead pipe 
subject to City Water pressure shall be used in any work done 
under the authority of a permit issued by the City of Waukegan, 
except such as is known to the trade as X strong, and in no case 
Ne than 34,” in diameter and must weigh not less than as 

ollows: 


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_ Section 13. Pipe For Street Service—Quality and Size. No 
pipe shall be used for the purpose of street service of a different 
material or size than herein specified, except by special permit, 
and all service pipe less than two inches internal diameter, with- 
in the limits of any street or alley, must be lead. 


Section 14. Service Pipes—How Laid. All service pipes 
leading from the street mains to the lot line shall be laid in the 
ground to a depth of not less than five feet below the established 
street grade, nor shall any service pipe be left with less than 
five feet of cover, and said pipe shall be laid in such manner and 
be of such surplus length as to prevent breakage or a rupture 
by settlement, and all joints in said pipe must be of the kind 
termed ‘‘Plumber’s wiped joints”. The connection of pipe by 
the so-called “cup joint” is prohibited. 

Section 15. Same—To Have Stop Cock and Waste Cock. 
Every service pipe must be provided with a stop and waste 
cock inside of building for each consumer, easily accessible, placed 


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beyond damage by frost and so situated that the water can be 
conveniently shut off and drained from the pipes. 

Section 16. Same—Stop Cock in Street—How Placed and 
Protected. Each and every water consumer must have a T 
handle roundway stop cock inserted into the service pipe one 
foot from outside edge of sidewalk in the parkway. Where side- 
walk covers the entire parkway, the stop cock must be inserted 
into the service pipe two feet inside of edge of curb. Each 
and every stop cock must be protected with a cast iron Buffalo 
stop cock box at least five feet long, and longer if the case re- 
quired and with a two and one-half inch internal diameter with 
the word “water” cast on the cover. Such stop cock and box 
must be placed by the plumber. The said stop box in all cases 
must be placed plumb and square over said stop cock and level 
with top of sidewalk or curb. 


Section 17. House Drain Pipes—Quality, Size. All house 
drain pipes and branches within buildings must be of extra 
heavy cast iron. The least diameter of soil pipe permitted for 
house drain is four inches. When the case requires that the 
house drain shall run under and through any house or building 
and receive the discharge of all the plumbing fixtures and storm 
water, the main drain pipe must be four inches in diameter. 

Section 18. Same—Sink and Laundry Waste Pipes—Sizes— 
Receiving Basin. The drain pipe receiving the discharge of 
waste from kitchen and pantry sinks and laundry tubs or any 
other receptacle likely to contain grease in any form must be 
two inches in diameter; the drain must be as short and direct 
as possible and discharge its contents into a brick basin outside 
of building. 

Section 19. Same—Connection with Sewer—Opening in Wall. 
The house drain must properly connect with the house sewer at 
a point not less than two feet outside of the outer wall, vault or 
area wall of the building. An arched or other proper opening 
must be provided for the drain in the wall to prevent damage 
by settlement. 

Section 20. Same—Fall Of—How Laid—Pipe Hooks Pro- 
hibited. The house drain pipe must have a uniform fall of one- 
fourth inch to the foot, and must be securely ironed to the walls, 
laid in trenches of uniform grade, or suspended to the floor tim- 
bers by strong iron hangers at intervals of not more than five 
feet. The use of pipe hooks for support drains is prohibited. 

Section 21. Clean-Out Connection—How Placed—Size of Plugs: 
Near the exit of drain, where drain is thirty feet or more inside 
the building and at the end of all drain branches within building 
must be placed an extra heavy brass and iron cleanout connec- 
tion in an accessible position above the level of finished floor. 
Cleanout plugs must be of same size as the drain they are in- 
serted into, 


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Section 22. House Drains—Arrangement Of. The arrange- 
ment of house drain pipes must be as direct as possible. All 
_ branches and changes in direction must be made with Y branch- 
es, one-fifth, one-sixth, one-eighth, one-sixteenth and long sweep 
one-quarter bends. 

Section 23. Yards and Areas.—To Be Graded, Etc., and 
Drained—Area Drains To Be Trapped and Protected. Yards 
and areas shall be properly graded, cemented, flagged or well 
paved and properly drained. When the area drains and floor 
washes are connected with the house drain they must be sep- 
arately and effectively trapped with a deep seal trap. 

Section 24. Subsoil Drains, Settling Basin, Contents of, How 
Emptied, Drain Tile Basin in Building Prohibited. When sub- 
soil drains are placed around the outside wall of house or build- 
ing the contents must discharge into a brick settling basin prop- 
erly trapped. The contents from settling basin must be dis- 
charged into the drainage system. 


Section 25. Soil and Waste Pipes—Material. All soil, waste 
and revent pipes used within any building must be extra heavy 
cast iron, or steel, or wrought iron, galvanized inside and outside, 
or lead. 

Section 26. Same—Extension Above Roof—Height. Soil and 
waste pipes receiving the discharge of fixtures on and above the 
first floor of any building must be extended in full caliber to a 
point at least six inches through roof or fire wall when roof is 
flat, and at least five feet. above or ten feet away from any open- 
ing- or window of the adjoining building. 

Section 27. Increasers, Size and Position Of—Offsets—How 
Made—Caps, etc. To Ventilation Pipe Prohibited. Where the 
vertical soil, waste or vent pipe passes through the roof, the pipe 
must have an increaser at least two inches greater than the pipe 
proper when stock is less than four inches. And in no case shall 
_ the increaser be less than four inches in diameter. The increaser 
must be placed below the roof. Necessary offsets above the 
highest fixture branch must not be made at an angle less than 
45 degrees to the horizontal. No caps, cowls or bends shall be 
affixed to the top of such ventilation pipe. 


Section 28. Revent Pipe—When Dispensed With. Where a 
single fixture other than water closet is located on a floor not 
more than six feet from ground or floor of basement and no other 


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fixture, the revent may be dispensed with, provided, the trap of 
said fixture is not located more than three feet from the waste 
pipe. But in all such cases the two-inch waste pipe must run 
up through the roof the same as other waste pipe. 

Section 29. Same. Where a single water closet or any other 
plumbing fixture is located on floor more than six feet above the 
ground and has an independent soil or waste pipe of undimin- 
ished size from ground to and through the roof, the revent may 
be dispensed with; provided, the trap of said fixture is located 
not more than three feet away from the said soil or waste pipe, 
and that no other fixture on the floors above or below is con- 
nected or will be connected with any pipe from said single fix- 
ture, and provided further, that a non-syphoning trap, tested 
and approved by the Commissioner of Health and the plumbing 
inspector shall be used for such fixtures. 


Section 30. Soil Pipes—Size Of. The least internal diameter 
of soil pipe permitted is four inches. A vertical line of soil pipe 
receiving the discharge from a line of water closets and bath- 
room fixtures from five or more floors must be five inches in- 
ternal diameter with four-inch branches. 

Section 31. Same. A verticle line of soil pipes receiving the 
discharge from six or more water closets and bathroom fixtures, 
in buildings where bathrooms are close together, must be five 
inches internal diameter with four-inch branches. | 

Section 32. Waste Pipes—Size Of. The least internal diaim- 
eter permitted for waste pipes is two inches. A vertical line of 
waste pipe receiving the discharge from kitchen sinks on five 
or more floors must be three inches internal diameter, with two- 
inch branches. 

Section 33. Same. Where a vertical line of waste pipe re- 
ceives the discharge from six or more sinks, backing up to one 
another, the waste pipe must be three inches internal diameter, 
with two-inch branches. 

Section 34. Soil and Waste Pipes—Diameters—Tabulated. 
The diameters of soil and waste pipes must not be less than those 

given in the following table: 


Main ‘sojl: pipes: 22 S22 ts er 
Main soil pipe for water closets on five or more floors__ 5 it 
Main soil pipe for buildings receiving soil and waste 


from three or more double bath rooms__________ ep s 
Branch™ soll pipe 22. a eee tM es 
Main: ‘waste “pipes. 222: 3 2 ee, See ee eens 2 oy 
Main waste pipe for kitchen sinks on 5 or more floors___ 3 % 
Main waste pipe for buildings receiving waste from 

three or more double kitchen sinks______________ 3 e 
Branch waste -for, kitchen (sinkoo2 ee 1% ae 
Branch. waste for. laundry: tubs 23.2227 2 2 es eee 1% as 


Branch waste for laundry tubs when set in ranges of 
three or: More. 232° ses ee eee 
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Meancuaswastewtor, other= ixtures e225 22) cn eed 1% inches 

Pre ree iicma Vinci ba Siviet. hia coe fe ee We ys a te 1% 

Section 35. Same—Arrangement Of. The arrangement of 
soil and waste pipes and branches must be as direct as possible. 
All necessary offsets on soil and waste pipes must be made with 
offset fittings or 45 degree fittings to the horizontal. All branch- 
es and changes in direction shall be made with Y branches, san- 
itary T’s one-fifth, one-sixth, one-eighth, one-sixteenth and one- 
quarter bends. Sanitary T’s will be permitted on vertical lines 
only. 

Section 36. Connections for Water Closets—Only Revent 
Branch Permitted. No connections to lead branches for water 
closets and slop sinks will be permitted except the required re- 
vent branch. 


Section 37. Other Fixtures—Independent Opening to Soil 
Pipe—F all of Branches. All other fixtures in bath rooms must 
have an independent waste opening of two inches in diameter 
into the soil pipe. Branch soil and waste pipe must have a fall of 
at least one-quarter of an inch to the foot. 


Section 38. Bends—Hubs—Increasers—Offsets, Etc.—What 
Kind Prohibited. Double hubs, short roof increasers, bands and 
saddles, combination ferrules, wrought and cast iron selder nip- 
. ples, hand hole cleanouts with thumb screws, tapped wastes and 
vents are all strictly prohibited. 


Section 39. Traps at Foot of Soil and Waste Pipes Prohibited. 
There shall be no traps at foot of soil or waste pipes. 

Section 40. Vertical Pipes—How Supported. All vertical soil 
~ waste and vent pipes must be supported on strong cast iron pipe 
rests, at intervals of not more than ten feet. 

Section 41. Separate System—Each Building to Have. The 
entire plumbing and drainage system of each house or building 
must be entirely separate and independent of that of any other 
house or building. 

Section 42. Cast Iron Pipe and Fittings Must Be Tar Or As- 
bestos Coated—Quality and Weight. All cast iron pipe and fit- 
tings used within house or building for drains, soil waste vents 
and revents must be tar or asbestos coated inside and outside, 
sound cylindrical and smooth, free from cracks, sand holes and 
other defects, and of uniform thickness and of the grade known 
in commerce as extra heavy. The following weights per lineal 
foot will be accepted as extra heavy: 

inches 5% pounds per lineal foot 
73 9% “c 66 “ “cc 
cc 13 ce “cc ce » 6¢ 
73 17 éé 73 ¢é ‘ec 


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Section 43. Fittings To Correspond with Pipe. All fittings 
used in connection with such pipe shall correspond with it in 
weight, quality and coating. 7 

Section 44, Joints How Made. All joints must be made with 
picked oakum and molten lead, and hand calked so as to make 
them gas tight. Not less than twelve ounces of fine, soft pig 
lead must be used at each joint for each inch in the diameter 
of the pipe. 

Section 45. Galvanized Pipe. Must be of Standard Weight. 
when galvanized wrought iron pipe is used. 

Section 46. Joints, To Be Screwed—Burr To Be Reamed Out 
—Short Nipples—Thickness Of—Thickness of Pipes. All joints 
shall be screwed joints made up with red lead, and the burr 
formed in cutting must be carefully reamed out. The pipe shall 
not be less than the following average thickness and weight per 


lineal foot. 
; WEIGHTS PER 
DIAMETER THICKNESS LINEAL FOOT 


1% inches 0.14 inches 2.68 pounds 
2 - at UL Oe 361.2 
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Section 47. Brass Ferrules—Quality—Size—Weight. Brass 
ferrules must be best quality, bell shaped, extra heavy cast brass 
and must not be less than 4 inches long. The diameters and 
weights of brass ferrules shall be as follows: 


DIAMETERS WEIGHTS 
214 inches 1 pound 6 ounces 
3% 73 1 “ 492 73 


6é éé 8 éé 


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Section 48. Ferrules—Certain Ones Prohibited—Soldering. 
Nipples Material and Size—Weight. One and one-half inch fer- 
rules are not permitted. Soldering nipples must be heavy case 
brass or of brass pipe, iron pipe size, for water supply connec- 
tions. When cast they must weigh not less than as follows: 


DIAMETERS WEIGHTS 

1% inches : 0 pounds 8 ounces 
6é 0 &ac nf 6c 

21% 13 1 6 6 13 

3 6é 2 “é 0 <3 


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Section 49. Brass Caps for Cleanouts—Weights and Size— 
Nuts for Screw Caps—Size of—Cleanout Ferruls—Must Be 


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Equal in Weight Etc., To Calking Ferrules. Brass screw caps . 
for cleanouts must be extra heavy, not less than one-eights of 
an inch thick. The screw cap must-have a solid square or hexa- 
gonal nut. 


Section 50. Screw Caps—When of Brass—Size of Engaging 
Parts—Size of Cleanouts. Where cleanouts are required by 
rules and by the approved plans, the screw cap must be of brass. 
The engaging parts must have not less than six threads and be 
tapered. 

Section 51. Lead Pipe—Use Of—Restricted. The use of lead 
pipe is restricted to the short branches of the soil and waste 
pipes, bends and traps, and roof connections of inside leaders. 
“Short branches” of lead pipe shall be construed to mean not 
more than: 

8 feet of 1% inch pipe 
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All connections between lead pipes and between lead and brass 
or copper pipes must be made by means of ‘“‘Wiped Solder 
Joints.” 


Section 52. Lead Waste, Soil, Vent and Flush Pipes—Quality 
and Weight of. All lead waste, soil and vent pipes and flush 
pipes must be of the best quality, known in commerce as ‘“‘acqua- 
duct’, extra light, and of not less than the following weights per 
lineal foot: 


Diameter Weights per Linial Foot 
1% inches 2 pounds 
1% “ 3 
» % 6c“ 4 “ec 
3 “ 6 “cc 
4 “ 8 “cc 


Section 53. Testing Plumbing System—How Made. ‘The en- 
tire plumbing and drainage system within the building must be 
tested by the plumber, in the presence of the inspector of plumb- 
ing, under a water test, as directed. All pipes must remain un- 
covered in every part until they have successfully passed the 
test. The plumber must securely close all openings, as directed 
by the inspector of plumbing. The use of wooden plugs for this 
purpose is prohibited. 

Section 54. Water Test—How Made. The water test will be 
applied by closing the lower end of the main house drain and 


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filling the pipes to the highest opening above the roof with 
water. The water test shall include at one time the house drain 
and branches, all vertical and horizontal soil, waste and vent and 
leader lines, and all branches therefrom to point above the sur- 
face of the finished floor and beyond the finished face of walls 
and partitions. Deviation from the above rule will not be per- 
mitted, unless upon written application to and approval by the 
Commissioner of Health or Inspector of Plumbing. If the drain 
or any part of the system is to be tested separately there must 
be a head of water at least six feet above all parts of the work 
so tested, and special provision must be made for including all 
joints and connections in at least one test. 


Section 55. Defective Work Must Be Made Good. Defective 
pipes and work must be removed and all defective work made 
good and to conform with the provisions of this chapter. 


Section 56. Notices for Inspection—How Given—To Be Num- 
bered and Filed by Commissioner of Health—New Notice— 
When Given. All notices for inspection must be directed to the 
City Clerk, and must be made out on blanks furnished by the 
Department of Health for such purposes. The plumber must 
give such notice eighteen hours before work is ready for in- 
spection, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays; provided here- 
under that if the inspector can not be at the place at the time 
mentioned, he may in turn notify the plumber by a written no- 
tice delivered at his office or to any of his employees, stating 
what hour he can inspect such work;. at least four hours before 
the date stated in the notice received. 


Section 57. Same—Main Lines and Branches—Material and 
Size—Connection with Soil or Waste Line—How Made. Main 
vent pipe lines and branches must be of galvanized wrought or 
cast iron pipe. They must be increased in diameter and ex- 
tended above the roof as required for waste pipes. They must 
be connected with the adjoining soil or waste line by means of 
inverted Y branch not less than one foot above the highest pos- 
sible intended fixture, but this will not be permitted when there 
are fixtures on four or more floors. 


Section 58. Branches—Angle Of. All branches must be 
made with standard offsets or 45 degree elbows. 

Section 59. Branch Vent Pipes. How Connected. Branch 
vent pipes must be connected above the top of all connecting fix- 
tures to prevent the use of vent pipes as soil or waste pipes. 
Branch vent pipes must be connected as near to the crown of 
the trap. as possible. 

Section 60. Earthenware Traps—How Ventilated—Branch 
Vent Pipe How Run and Connected—Revent Horns in water 
Closets Prohibited. Earthenware traps for water closets and 
slop sinks must be ventilated from the branch soil or waste pipe 
just below the trap, and this branch vent pipe must be so run 


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and connected as to prevent all danger of obstruction from con- 
densation or otherwise. No other pipe shall be connected with 
such revent. Water closets must have no revent horns. 

Section 61. Vent Pipes—When Dispensed With. Where 
there is only one water closet in a bath room, with other plumb- 
ing fixtures, and no other water closet is now or hereafter to be 
connected with the same soil pipe, the vent to said water closet 
may be dispensed with; provided the said water closet is not 
located more than two feet away from the soil pipe. 

Section 62. Vent Pipes—Size Of. The sizes of vent pipes 
throughout must not be less than the following: The main vent 
and long branches for water closets, in buildings of four or more 
stories in height, must be at least three inches in diameter, with 
a two-inch branch for each water closet trap. This rule shall 
apply to all other fixtures, except that branches may be of same 
size as trap, and main pipe may be reduced to two inches for 
the two lower stories. Vent pipes for water closets in residences 
must be two inches, with same size branches, and for other fix- 
tures not less than one and one-half inches, with branches same 
size as trap. Revent pipe for drum trap may be dispensed with. 

Section 63. Ventilation—Brick—Sheet Metal, Earthenware, 
Etc., Prohibited. No brick, sheet metal, earthenware or chim- 
ney flue shall be used for a house sewer or drain ventilator, or 
to ventilate any trap, soil or waste pipe. 

Section 64. Separate Traps for Every Fixture—How Placed. 
Every fixture must be separately trapped by a water sealing trap 
placed as close to the fixture outlet as possible. _ 

Section 65. Single Traps—When Permitted. A set of wash 
trays may be connected with a single trap, or into the trap of an 
adjoining sink, provided both sink and tub waste outlets are on 
the same side of the waste line and the sink is nearest the line. 
When so connected the waste pipe from the wash trays must be 
branches in below the water seal on inlet side of the trap. 

Section 66. Discharge From Fixture—Not To Pass More 
Than One Trap—Traps—How Supported and Set. The dis- 
charge from any fixture must not pass through more than one 
trap before reaching the house drain. All traps must be well 
supported and set true with respect to their water levels. 


Section 67. Drum Traps—For Bath Tubs—Material—How 
Set. All bath tubs must be trapped by means of a drum trap. 
The trap must be of extra heavy lead, not less than nine inches 
long, and must be provided with a four inch brass cleanout screw. 
The trap is to set so the cleanout screw will be flush with the 
floor and in no case at a greater distance than two feet from 
the bath tub outlet. 

Section 68. Metallic Strainers—When Required—Brass Trap 
Screws—When Required—How Placed. All fixtures other than 
water closets and urinals must have strong metallic strainers or 


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bars over the outlets to prevent obstruction of the water pipe. 
All exposed or accessible traps, except water closet traps, must 
have brass trap screws for cleaning the trap, placed on the inlet 
side or below the water level. 


Section 69. Earthenware Traps—To Have Brass Floor 
Plates—Joint To Be Made Gas Tight—Rubber Washers for Floor 
Connections Prohibited. All earthenware traps must have 
heavy brass plates soldered to the lead bends and bolted to the 
trap flanges, and the joint made gas tight with a good bed of 
fresh putty. The use of rubber washers for floor connections is 
prohibited. 

Section 70. Traps—Sizes For. The sizes of traps must not 
be less than those given in the following table: 


Traps for water closets 4 inches in diameter 
‘6 is$ ; slop sinks 1 VY, 66 6c 6é 
= “kitchen sinks 1S sae e ee 
sé a“ wash trays Dy bc (79 66 
# “« -airmals, earthen’: 144: i= iS 
ay “urinals, stalls Z 3 ie i 
as «bath ‘tubs 


(lead drum trap) 4 teed eae FF 
oo 8 other axtures Ligeti tee « 
Wash basins ie Fiotke ‘6 ‘ 


Section 71. Overflow Pipes—How Connected. Overflow 
pipes from fixtures must in each case be connected on the inlet 
side of trap, and no trap shall be used as a soil or waste pipe. 

Section 72. - Sediment Pipes—How Connected. The sediment 
pipe from range boiler may be connected on inlet side of sink 
trap, or waste into open water supplied sink in basement, or 
sediment at boiler. 

Section 73. Safe and Refrigerator Waste Pipes.—Material— 
Size Of—Strainers—How Secured. Safe and refrigerator waste 
pipes must be of galvanized iron, and be not less than one and 
one-quarter inches in diameter, with lead branches of the same 
size, with strainers over the inlets secured by a bar soldered to 
the lead branch. 


Section 74. Safe Waste Pipes—Not To Connect Directly With 
System. Safe waste pipes must not connect directly with any 
part of the plumbing system. 


Section 75. Same—How Discharged. Safe waste pipes must | 
discharge over an open, water supplied, publicly placed, ordinar- 
ily used sink placed not more than three and one-half feet above 
the cellar floor. 

Section 76. Same—How Trapped and Discharged. The safe 
waste pipe from a refrigerator must be trapped at the bottom of 
the line only and cannot discharge from the ground and floor. It 
must discharge over an ordinary portable pan, or over some 
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the refrigerator waste pipe discharge over a Sink located in a 
room used for living purposes. 

Section 77. Branches—How Made. The branches on vertical 
lines must be made by Y fittings and be carried up to the safe 
with as much pitch as possible. 

Section 78. Lead Safes—Must Be Graded and Turned. Lead 
gees must be graded and neatly turned over bevel strips at their 
edges. 

Section 79. Cleanouts For Refrigerator Waste Pipe—When 
Required. Where there is an offset on a refrigerator waste pipe 
in the cellar there must be cleanouts to control the horizontal 
part of the pipe. | 

Section 80. Tenement and Lodging Houses—Refrigerator 
Waste Pipes In—Construction and Size. In tenement houses’ 
and lodging houses the refrigerator waste pipes must extend 
above the roof, and must not be larger than one and one-half 
inches, nor the branches smaller than one and one-quarter inches. 

Section 81. Flap Valves—Brass—When Required. Refriger- 
ator waste pipes, except in tenement houses and all safe waste 
pipes, must have brass flap-valves at their lower ends. 

Section 82. Water Closets—How Placed and Supplied—In 
Tenement Houses. Water closets must never be placed in an 
unventilated room or compartment. In every case the room or 
compartment must be open to the outer air or be ventilated by 
means of an air duct or shaft. Interior water closets shall not 
be supplied from city supply pipes direct. All water closets with- 
in the house must be supplied from special tanks or cisterns, the 
water of which is not used for any other purpose. A group of 
water closets may be supplied from one tank, but water closets 
on different floors shall not be supplied from one tank. In tene- 
ment houses there must be a separate cistern for each water 
closet must be provided for each two families. 

Section 83. Cisterns—Valves Of—How Fitted. The valves 
of cisterns must be so fitted and adjusted as to prevent waste of 
‘water. 

Section 84. Water Closets In Yard—To Be Separately 
Trapped—How Arranged and Ventilated. Water closets when 
placed in the yard must be separately trapped and so arranged 
as to be conveniently and adequately flushed and: their water 
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compartment for such water closets must be ventilated by means 
of slatted openings in the doors and roof. 

Section 85. Same—Notices To and Consent of Commissioner 
of Health. Where water closets are proposed to be placed out- 
side of house or building proper, the commissioner of health 
must be notified and consent to same in writing before the pro- 
posed work is started. 


Section 86. Water Closets—Bowls—Kind Of. All water 
closets within house or building proper must have earthenware 
flushing rim bowls, with trap combined. Pipe wash bowls or 
hopper closets will not be permitted. 


Section 87. Same—Kind Prohibited. Iron, or partly iron, 
offset washouts, or other water closets having an unventilated 
space, or whose walls are not thoroughly washed at each dis- 
charge will not be permitted. Long hopper water closets will 
not be permitted except in locations exposed to frost, and the 
written approval of the Commissioner of Health must be ob- 
tained before any such closet is placed. 


Section 88. Tanks For Drinking Water—Material and Con- 
struction Of. Tanks for drinking water, if indispensable, must 
not be lined with zinc or galvanized iron. They must be con- 
structed of wood or iron or may be lined with planished copper. 
The overflow pipes shall discharge from the roof or be trapped 
and discharge into an open sink; but never into any soil, waste 
pipe, water closet, trap drain or sewer. Discharge pipes from 
such tanks shall not be so constructed as to discharge into any 
drain, connected soil or waste pipe. 


Section 89. Leaders—How Constructed. All buildings shall 
be kept provided with proper metallic leaders for conducting 
water from the roofs in such manner as shall protect the walls 
and foundations of said buildings from injury. In no case shall 
the water from said leaders be allowed to flow upon the sidewalk, 
but the same shall be connected by water pipe or pipes to the 
sewer. If there is no sewer in the street upon which such build- 
ings front, then the water from said leaders shall be conducted 
by proper pipe or pipes below the surface of the sidewalk to the 
street gutter. 

Section 90. Inside Leaders—Material and Construction. In- 
side leaders must be made of cast iron, wrought iron or steel, 
with roof connections made gas and water tight by means of a 
heavy lead or copper drawn tubing wiped or soldered to a brass 
ferrule or nipple calked or screwed into a pipe. 

Section 91. Outside Leaders—Material—Connection With 
House Drain. Outside leaders may be of sheet metal, but they 
must connect with the house drain by means of a cast iron pipe 
extending vertically to the grade level. 

Section 92. Leaders—For Rain Water—Not To Be Used For 
Soil, Etc. Pipes and Vice Versa. Rain water leaders must not be 


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used as soil, waste or vent pipes, nor shall any such pipe be used 
as a leader. 

Section 93. Steam Engines or Heaters—Connection With— 
Tow To Be Made. No connection shall be made through which 
the steam from any engine, heating plant or heater can be dis- 
charged into the sewer, except that such discharge first enters a 
condensing tank that will effectively condense such vapor. All 
connections to sewer or soil pipe from steam boilers, tanks or 
other vessels which contain hot water or other liquids, gasses 
or vapors must be made through condensing and receiving tanks 
of sufficient size to protect sewers and soil pipes. 

Section 94. Privy Accommodations in Cellars, Etc., of Tene: 
ment Houses Not Allowed. The general privy accommodations 
of a tenement house or lodging house shall not be permitted in 
the cellar, basement or under sidewalks. The placing of such 
accommodations for stores and other business places shall not 
be permitted in the cellar, basement or under sidewalks except 
notice be given to and consent in writing be obtained from the 
commissioner of health. (See Health-Building Regulations.). 

Section 95. Wooden Wash Trays Prohibited. Wooden wash 
trays and sinks are prohibited inside of any building; they shall 
be of non-absorbent material. 

Section 96. Catch Basin in Building Prehibited. No catch 
basin shall be allowed in any residence building. 

Section 97. Open Flushing. All plumbing fixtures within 
the building must be entirely open, supported on iron legs or 
brackets and without any inclosing wood work. 

Section 98. Connecting Pipes To Supply Steam Boilers With 
Water—Direct Flush Pressure Prohibited. Plumbers are pro- 
hibited from connecting pipes whereby high pressure steam 
boilers may be supplied with water direct with city pressure. 
All such boilers shall be provided with a tank or other receptacle 
of sufficient capacity to hold at least six hours supply in case 
of a pipe district being shut off to repair mains or to make con- 
nections or extensions. In such cases the city of Waukegan 
will not be responsible for a lack of water for steam boilers, or 
for any other purpose. 


Section 99. Water Closet, Etc., Passing Water Through When 
Not In Use Prohibited. No water closet, or apparatus of any 
kind, shall be connected with the water supply through which 
the water will pass when not in use. 

Section 100. Penalty. Any person violating any provision of 
this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of not less than five 
dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for each and every violation 
thereof, and in addition his certificate may be revoked by the 
Commissioner of Health or by the City Council of said City. 

Section 101. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in con- 
flict herewith are hereby repealed. 


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Section 102. An emergency exists affecting the public health 
and safety and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force 
ten (10) days after its publication according to law. 


J. F. BIDINGER, 
Mayor. 
Attest: J H. Marseilles 
City Clerk. 
Passed Dec. 18th, A. D. 1911. 
Signed Dec. 18th, A. D. 1911. 
Published, Dec. 23rd, A. D. 1911. 
Approved, Dec. 18th, A. D. 1911. 
ARTHUR BULKLEY, 
Corporation Counsel. 


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